Kim Il-sung
Age: 82 | From: Mangyongdae, North Korea
Person Details
Birthday: 1912-04-15 21:24:53
Death: 1994-07-08 21:24:53
Aliases: 김일성 , Kim Il Sung , Kim Il-seong
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Mangyongdae, North Korea
Homepage: http://www.korea-dpr.com/biography.html
Movie Involvements: 13
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Spotlight
(2015) Himself (archive footage)
How to Become a Tyrant
(2021) Self (archive footage)
Beyond Utopia
(2023) Self (archive footage)
The Propaganda Game
(2015) Self (archive footage)
North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator
(2021) Self (archive footage)
Korea: The Never-Ending War
(2019) Self (archive footage)
The Lovers and the Despot
(2016) Self - Politician (archive footage)
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang
(2015) Self (archive footage)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2020 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2016 | Self - Politician (archive footage) | |
| 2015 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self - Politician (archive footage) | ||
| Himself (archive footage) | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2010 | N/A | |
| 2006 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | Himself | |
| 1976 | N/A | |
| 1972 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Screenplay | |
| 1969 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
