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person_profile-Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung Died at age: 82

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Kim Il-sung

Date of Birth:

Apr 15, 1912

Country of birth:

North Korea

Died:

Jul 08, 1994

Biography of

Kim Il-sung

    Kim Il-sung was the leader of North Korea DPRK from 1948 to 1994. Kim began his career in the North Korean leadership in 1968 as the head of the state’s propaganda and agitation department, the main organ of which was the film studios. He amassed arguably the world’s largest personal film collection: over 20,000 bootlegged 35mm screening copies from all around the world that, due to the DPRK’s stringent information-control policies, he was the only person in the country authorised to watch.

    His first mission was to use cinema as a propaganda tool to “educate” the people. Before 1945, North Korea hadn’t existed; Korea had been a unified kingdom for hundreds of years – until 1910, when it was swallowed up by the Japanese empire, which didn’t divide it. The border that now separates the two Korean states was drawn on a map at the end of the second world war as a compromise between the US and the USSR, who had jointly defeated the Japanese. The Kims’ mandate, from the first, was to convince the people that “their” Korea in the north was more legitimate than the “other” Korea in the south, which, they said, had a puppet government secretly run by Americans. Using books and plays, but mainly film, the Kims rewrote Korean history to paint themselves as revolutionary freedom-fighters, the last bastion of resistance against Yankee imperialism.

Photos of

Kim Il-sung

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Filmography of

Kim Il-sung

Found 14 Movies in total

Beyond Utopia

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

Korea, A Hundred Years of War

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

Korea: The Never-Ending War

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

The Lovers and the Despot

Self - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

I Am Sun Mu

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

The Propaganda Game

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography

Self - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

... 2010

Crossing the Line

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2006

... 1994

... 1976

... 1972