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Film Screening Comrade Kim Goes Flying at Stony Brook University Long Island New York |
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at Stony Brook University Wang Center in SB, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York |
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November 18, 2015 |
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2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
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Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I |
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100 Nicholls Road |
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Stony Brook, NY 11794 |
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Film Screening Comrade Kim Goes Flying at Stony Brook University Wang Center in Stony Brook, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. September 8, 2012, 81 minutes, Korean (English subtitles), Romantic Comedy, Directed by Nicholas Bonner Anita Daelemans and Gwang Hun Kim.
Comrade Kim Goes Flying is a 2012 joint British-Belgian-North Korean romantic comedy feature film, set and filmed in Pyongyang, North Korea. The film's star Han Jong-sim, a real life aerialist, took acting lessons especially for the film. She plays a young woman named Kim Yong Mi who is sent from her small mining town to Pyongyang to work at a construction site. She becomes a valued worker and pursues her dream of becoming a circus trapeze artists even as her family and community disapprove. This groundbreaking film tells a story not common in North Korea. It highlights feminist individualism and is void of propaganda. Unlike standard North Korean films, Comrade Kim Goes Flying avoids a leading man and a leading role for the state. Comrade Kim Yong Mi succeeds in winning over the circus bureaucracy and her nemesis, the circus strong man Pak Jang Phil (and his mother) by the strength of her talent, beauty, personality and cleverness. |
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631-632-4400 |
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