The North Korean regime maintains one of the world’s largest forced labour systems. The government, short of cash due to international economic sanctions, sells its own people as labourers to work in companies in Russia, China and a dozen other countries around the world – including member states of the European Union. This investigative documentary exclusively shows the inhumane conditions under which North Korean labour brigades are forced to live and work, and it sheds an important light on how this state-organized human trafficking helps to finance Kim Jong-un’s nuclear program.
A CO-PRODUCTION BY
a&o buero, Moonlight Films and The Why Foundation
AWARDS
Golden Nymph for Best Documentary, 59. Television Festival Monte-Carlo
FESTIVALS
United Nations Association Film Festival Palo Alto-San Francisco, Construir Cine Labor International Film Festival Argentina, North Korean Human Rights International Film Festival Seoul, Deep Focus Film Festival New York
BROADCASTERS
ZDF/ARTE, KBS, BBC, CBC, DR, EO, NHK, NRK, SVT, BHRT, Czech TV, ERR, LRT, RUV, SRF, RTS, TV3, UR, YES/DBS, YLE, Against Gravity
SUPPORTED BY
MEDIA, Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, KCA, The Open University, EBU, DANIDA, Nordvision
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
Carl Gierstorfer
Sebastian Weis
CO-DIRECTORS
Jonghun Yu
Tristan Chytroschek
Wonjung Bae
Ingun Lee
Hyejin Min
PRODUCERS
Tristan Chytroschek
Wonjung Bae
CONSULTING EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Alan Hayling
EDITOR
Ramon Urselmann
CAMERA AND SOUND
Carl Gierstorfer
Sebastian Weis
Franz Koch
Maciej Smich
Youndoo Chung
David Jo
Noh Jae-Yun
Jens Paschke
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Nils Kacirek
GRAPHICS
KIM & HIM
FIELD PRODUCERS AND RESEARCH
Katarzyna Tuszynska
Kyuwook Oh
Andreas Rossbach
Maciej Smich
Mark Siegmund
Hanna Gieffers
Christian Vonscheidt
SOUND MIX AND SOUNDDESIGN
Roman Vehlken
Milan Meyer-Kaya
COLOUR CORRECT
Andreas Piecha
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Alexandra Obradovic
LEGAL ADVICE
GRAEF Rechtsanwälte
TRANSLATIONS
Jin-Man Jun
Jiyoung Youn
Forest Ian Etsler
THANKS TO
Neil Tabatznik
Ljubov Tatarec
DURATION
52 mins
YEAR
2018
