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In the 1950s, Shin Sang-ok, one of South Korea’s most successful film directors, fell in love with and married his star, the beautiful Choi Eun-hee. They became the dream couple of the Korean film industry—until Shin’s infidelity and his mismanagement of his production company led the pair to split in 1978. Later that same year, while traveling on business in Hong Kong, Choi was abducted by North Korean secret agents and brought to that nation’s film-mad president, Kim Jong-il. Shin would soon suffer the same fate as Kim plotted to reunite the first couple of Korean cinema in order to improve the quality of his country’s cinematic product. The Lovers and the Despot tells the amazing true story of their abduction and years of captivity (which included a number of film productions) through a series of documentary interviews and the incredible audio recordings that the pair secretly made of the crazed despot.
Directors Robert Cannan and Ross Adam 2016 United Kingdom 98 minutes NR DCP
