Screen/Society--Cine-East--Transnational North Korea--"The Flower Girl"
- Series Name:
Cine-East--"Transnational North Korea: Migration and Urbanization"
- Sponsors:
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Women's Studies Program, Literature, and Duke East Asia Nexus (DEAN)
- Location:
- Cost:
Free and Open the Public
- When:
to
- Contact:
Okazaki, Hank
- Email:
Film Screening: THE FLOWER GIRL (PAK Hak and CH'OE Ik-gyu, 1972, 127 min, North Korea, in Korean with English subtitles, Color, DVD). -- Widely regarded as the best film ever made in North Korea, and often labeled "the North Korean GONE WITH THE WIND," THE FLOWER GIRL is a melodramatic tale of the Korean struggle against Japanese occupation. This iconic classic of North Korean propaganda film tells the story of Koppun, a poor flower seller caring for her sick mother and blind sister. The family endures a series of tragedies and sadistic punishments by an evil landlord before the flower girl's brother, a member of the Korean Revolutionary Army, sweeps in and overthrows the landlord. Supposedly written by Kim Il-Sung himself, the film is an adaptation of an opera by the same name, one of the "Five Revolutionary Operas." -- Co-sponsored by the Korea Forum at Duke, and the following organizations at UNC: the Carolina Asia Center, Center for Global Initiatives, Asian Studies, Cinema Studies, and the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defence.
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