푸른 눈의 평야 시민
Crossing the Line
The story of Comrade Joe, the last American defector in North Korea
Crossing the Line tells the story of the last American defector in North Korea, James Joseph Dresnok. It’s a story of defection, kidnap, love, and political intrigue. All set and captured in the most secret and inaccessible country on earth: North Korea.
Trailer and Film
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Crossing The Line: Introduction
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to the Cold War enemy, the communist state of North Korea. He then simply disappeared from the face of the known world.
Dresnok became a coveted star of the North Korean propaganda machine and found fame acting in films, typecast as an evil American. He uses Korean as his daily language. He has three sons from two wives and has now lived in North Korea twice as long as he has in America. At one time, there were four Americans living in North Korea. Today, just one remains. Now, after 45 years, the story of Comrade Joe, the last American defector in North Korea, is told.
Crossing The Line: Synopsis
This is the story of the last American defector in North Korea, James Joseph Dresnok. It’s a story of defection, kidnap, love, and political intrigue, all set and captured in the most secret and inaccessible country on earth: North Korea.
In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, four US soldiers defected to North Korea. None of the men had any idea what awaited them on the other side. No one knows why they defected, until now. Each man left his Southern border post in the demilitarized zone — the DMZ, a 2.5-mile wide patch of land that splits the Korean peninsula in half and is the most heavily fortified area on earth, packed with 2.5m land mines—and walked into an alien world.
Dresnok and his unique band of brothers published propaganda pamphlets, telling the world how happy they were in ‘the People’s Paradise’ and starred in propaganda films, vilifying US servicemen. They became North Korean national heroes.
The world knows of only one of these men: Charles Robert Jenkins. His story broke open in September 2002 when it was reported that one of the kidnapped Japanese nationals, Hitomi Soga, had married an American defector. What no one knew at that time, except for the filmmakers, was that a second American defector, James Joseph Dresnok, was alive.
Jenkins now lives in Japan with his wife and daughters. He is a key part of the story but as much of it is now in the public domain, it is Dresnok who is the driving force of the film. Dresnok remains in North Korea and lives with his family in the capital city, Pyongyang, and has not had contact with outsiders since his defection in 1962.
Dresnok grew up a poor orphan in Virginia and never finished high school. Having little choice but to go to the army when after a first stint in West Germany, he was sent over to the most dangerous border in the world, the DMZ. He has now lived for 44 years in Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea, one of the most deeply anti-American societies in the world. He worked for the Korean People’s Army as an English teacher and learned the language and the system.
For the first time, Dresnok tells his story.
In making the film, the filmmakers had astonishing access to Dresnok, his daily life in North Korea, his and the other defector’s families, and even the North Korean soldier who captured him in 1962. These sights have never been seen before to anyone outside North Korea, and even to most North Koreans.
Crossing The Line: About The Documentary
CROSSING THE LINE is the third feature-length documentary by VeryMuchSo Productions, the team that produced the RTS award-winning The Game of Their Lives (four awards in total plus two Grierson nominations, one British Independent Film Awards nomination). Plus, the acclaimed A State of Mind (broadcast in the UK on June 7th 2004 and chosen as ‘Pick of the Day’ in every broadsheet) is the story of two North Korean gymnasts as they prepare a Mass Games celebration. A State of Mind was selected for competition at Tribeca Film Festival and officially selected to Pusan International Film Festival, Sheffield International Documentary Festival and to International Documentary Festival Amsterdam.
Koryo Studio and VeryMuchSo have unique access to North Korea, having spent the last six years negotiating and filming in the country. The team is also highly respected in North Korea itself. The Game of Their Lives has been broadcast ten times there (one channel, 100% ratings!) and a follow-up documentary on the football players’ return to England in 2002 was broadcast twice a week for two months in 2003.
Trailer and Film
Crossing the Line (2006 film)
| Crossing the Line | |
|---|---|
 Region 1 DVD | |
| Directed by | Daniel Gordon Nicholas Bonner |
| Written by | Daniel Gordon |
| Produced by | Daniel Gordon |
| Narrated by | Christian Slater |
| Cinematography | Nick Bennet |
| Edited by | Peter Haddon |
| Music by | Heather Fenoughty |
Release dates |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English Korean |
| Box office | $9,258 (USA) |
Crossing the Line (Korean: 푸른 눈의 평양시민, A Blue-Eyed Pyongyang Citizen in North Korea) is a 2006 British documentary film by Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner. Gordon also wrote the script and produced the documentary.
Synopsis
[edit]The film is about a former U.S. Army soldier, James J. Dresnok, who defected to North Korea on 15 August 1962. It was directed and produced by British filmmakers Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner, and was shown at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Crossing the Line, which was narrated by actor Christian Slater, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the festival.
Production
[edit]It was first screened in 2007 on the BBC. The film centred on Dresnok's history, highlighting his unhappiness in America, and particularly his desertion from the United States Army in 1962 to the DPRK. It showed Dresnok in present-day in Pyongyang (where he lived to his death), interacting with his North Korean family and friends. Dresnok spoke exclusively to the filmmakers about his childhood, his desertion, his life in a country completely foreign and quite hostile to his own, his fellow defectors, and his wife and children.[1]
Dresnok is shown with fellow defectors, including Charles Robert Jenkins, who returned to Japan to be with his wife, Hitomi Soga (a victim of kidnapping by the North Koreans), while filming was taking place. Dresnok seemed hurt by Jenkins' allegations of physical abuse by Dresnok and the North Korean regime and angrily denied them.
Towards the end of Crossing the Line, a North Korean doctor discloses to the BBC that Dresnok is in failing health, mainly due to heavy drinking and smoking.[2][3][4]
Cast
[edit]Reception
[edit]The movie had mostly positive reception.[5][6][7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ 'Crossing' Reveals Untold N. Korea Story, The Korea Times, 23 August 2007
- ^ Last US defector in North Korea, BBC, 23 January 2007
- ^ Robert Willoughby The Bradt Travel Guide: North Korea 2008, page 39 "In a further twist, they found film fame with roles in DPRK films vilifying the US, with Dresnok typecast as an evil American and making firm friends with several North Korean film stars who appear in Crossing the Line and discussed the ..."
- ^ Justin Corfield, Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang 2013, page 43 "After Doina died of lung cancer, Dresnok married the daughter of a Togolese diplomat and a North Korean woman, and had a son. Teaching English at Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, he was the subject of the film Crossing the Line ..."
- ^ The New York Times, 10 August 2007
- ^ The Los Angeles Times, 12 October 2007
- ^ Slant Magazine
- ^ "Crossing the Line". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
External links
[edit]푸른 눈의 평양시민
 Crossing the Line | |
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| 감독 | 다니엘 고든 니콜라스 보너 |
| 각본 | 다니엘 고든 |
| 제작 | 다니엘 고든 |
| 해설 | 크리스천 슬레이터 |
| 촬영 | 닉 베넷 |
| 편집 | 피터 해돈 |
| 음악 | Heather Fenoughty |
| 개봉일 |
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| 시간 | 96분 |
| 국가 | .svg){kind=small} 영국 |
| 언어 | 영어, 한국어 |
| 흥행수익 | 9,258 달러 (USA) |
푸른 눈의 평양시민(Crossing the Line)은 2006년 개봉된 영국의 다큐멘터리 영화이다.
개요
[편집]이 영화는 1962년 8월 15일 조선민주주의인민공화국으로 전향한 미국의 전 육군 사병 제임스 드레스녹에 관한 이야기로 구성되어 있다. 이 영화는 영국의 영화 제작자 다니엘 고든과 니콜라스 보너에 의해 감독 및 제작되었으며, 2007년 선댄스 영화제에서 상영되었다. 해설 역할을 맡은 배우 크리스천 슬레이터는 해당 영화제에서 그랜드 쥬리상(Grand Jury Prize)의 후보로 지명받았다.
내용
[편집]2007년, 영화는 영국의 방송사 BBC에서 처음 상영되었다. 드레스녹의 미국에서의 불행함과, 특히 1962년 미국 육군에서 탈영하여 조선민주주의인민공화국으로 간 그의 역사에 초점을 두었다. 드레스녹이 죽기 전까지 살았던 평양에서 가족, 그리고 친구들과 함께 있는 그의 근황을 보여주었다. 드레스녹은 오로지 영화 제작자에게만 그의 어린 시절, 탈영, 그에게 있어 완전히 이국적이고 꽤 적대적인 나라에서의 그의 삶, 전향한 동료들, 그의 아내와 자식에 대한 이야기를 했다고 한다.[1]
영화에서, 드레스녹은 납북의 희생자인 아내 소가 히토미와 살기 위해 일본으로 돌아간 찰스 로버트 젱킨스를 포함해 전향한 동료들과 함께 보여진다.
영화 끝부분에는, 조선민주주의인민공화국의 의사가 드레스녹이 과도한 음주와 흡연으로 인한 건강 악화 상태에 있다고 BBC에 폭로한다.[2][3][4]
출연진
[편집]평가
[편집]영화는 대부분 긍정적인 평가를 받았다고 한다.[5][6][7][8]
같이 보기
[편집]각주
[편집]- ↑ 'Crossing' Reveals Untold N. Korea Story, The Korea Times, 23 August 2007
- ↑ Last US defector in North Korea, BBC, 23 January 2007
- ↑ Robert Willoughby The Bradt Travel Guide: North Korea 2008, page 39 "In a further twist, they found film fame with roles in DPRK films vilifying the US, with Dresnok typecast as an evil American and making firm friends with several North Korean film stars who appear in Crossing the Line and discussed the ..."
- ↑ Justin Corfield, Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang 2013, page 43 "After Doina died of lung cancer, Dresnok married the daughter of a Togolese diplomat and a North Korean woman, and had a son. Teaching English at Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, he was the subject of the film Crossing the Line ..."
- ↑ The New York Times, 10 August 2007
- ↑ The Los Angeles Times, 12 October 2007
- ↑ Slant Magazine
- ↑ “Crossing the Line”. 《Rotten Tomatoes》 (영어). 2017년 8월 22일에 확인함.
외부 링크
[편집]- (영어) Crossing the Line - 인터넷 영화 데이터베이스
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