On the Green Carpet

On the Green Carpet is a 2001 North Korean film directed by Rim Changbom. The films title refers to the turf of the stadium which hosts the May Day mass games in Pyongyang.

Everyday life in North Korea is presented as being pleasant and troublefree, with no evidence of reported food shortages and an emphasis on the peoples devotion to the Dear Leader.On the Green Carpet was the first North Korean film to be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was screened in 2004 as a special oneoff event. It had been chosen by the festival committee from a selection of ten films, and aroused a great deal of interest despite being shown without subtitles and with a German languageonly voiceover. The predominantly German audience who saw the film later criticized it for its Nazistyle propaganda. Sheila Johnson of FIPRESCI regarded it as a rare and fascinating curiosity, but noted On the Green Carpet, with its flat, highkey lighting, functional editing and overfondness for the zoom lens, could have been made forty years ago although the subject might be superficially similar, it was executed with none of the technical brilliance of a Leni Riefenstahl movie. ........

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