Snow Melts in Spring: another look at the North Korean film industry

Abstract

The North Korean film industry in the 1980s faced optimistic changes in filmic techniques and visual representations with Kim Jong Il's desire to elevate North Korean films to international standards. The greatest impact the film industry has had in its history was the presence of Sin Sang-ok and Choe Eun-hui. The parameters of filmmaking expanded in the areas of budget, studio sets, film locations, sexuality and action sequences. North Korean filmmakers have always navigated their cinematic vision in and through the prescribed political ideology even before the influence of Sin Sang-ok, but the 1980s enabled these filmmakers to express their creativity more openly than they have in the past. Snow Melts in Spring is an exemplary case of the filmmakers’ conscious efforts to limit expressions of political ideology while pushing the boundaries of their creativity with the collaboration of the Chongryun Film Production in Japan.

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