Synopsis
Despite continuous interference by government handlers, director Vitaly Mansky still manages to document life in Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in this fascinating portrait of one girl and her parents in the year that Zin-mi prepares to join the Korean Children’s Union on the ‘Day Of The Shining Star’. As the family receives instruction on how to be the ideal patriots, Mansky’s watchful camera captures details his handlers might prefer left unseen, from comrades struggling to stay awake during an official event to Zin-mi’s tears at a particularly grueling dance lesson.
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Movie Details
| South Korea Releases: |
April 27th, 2016 (Limited), released as Under the Sun |
| Video Release: |
September 20th, 2016 by Icarus Home Video |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Running Time: |
110 minutes |
| Keywords: |
Set in North Korea, Communism |
| Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Factual |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
Vertov, Real Cinema, Saxonia Entertainment, Hypermarket Film, MDR, Czech Television |
| Production Countries: |
Czech Republic, Germany, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Russian Federation |
| Languages: |
Korean |
November 23rd, 2016
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The Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced last night and thus the 2016 Awards Season begins. There were a few surprises and some snubs to discuss, but for the most part, there’s not a lot nominations that broke the established narrative. It’s because there isn’t really an established narrative. This means films that earn nominations here have a much better chance of doing well going forward and Moonlight looks like it could rise up as a result.
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July 8th, 2016
Captain Fantastic is the only film on this week’s list that I think will do well in theaters. There are some films that are earning better reviews, like Our Little Sister, but no film on this week’s list has the same buzz as this film does.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2016/04/29 |
11 |
$41,085 |
|
120 |
$342 |
$62,510 |
1 |
| 2016/05/06 |
13 |
$31,929 |
-22% |
58 |
$551 |
$120,492 |
2 |
| 2016/05/13 |
19 |
$7,511 |
-76% |
19 |
$395 |
$142,986 |
3 |
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Production and Technical Credits
The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.
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