Madame Choi and the Monsters

Name: Madame Choi and the Monsters
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781914224225
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A True Story

By Patrick Spät

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Madame Choi and the Monsters

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Madame Choi and the Monsters

The true story of how a famous movie star and her ex-husband director were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il and forced to revitalise North Korea’s film industry.

Description

The incredible-yet-true story of celebrated South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee, abducted in 1978 by North Korean secret agents on the orders of their film-crazed future leader Kim Jong-il. Six months later, filmmaker Shin Sang-ok, Choi Eun-hee's ex-husband, is abducted in turn. Choi and Shin remain unaware of each other's fates until they meet again at a dinner hosted by Kim Jong-il in 1983. Kim forces Choi and Shin to make films, including the infamous kaiju cult classic Pulgasari (1985), all while convincing the world that they serve North Korea willingly. Choi and Shin's love rekindles slowly in this reunited captivity. Only at the 1986 Venice Film Festival do they escape, fleeing in a daring car chase to the American embassy.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781914224225

Publisher: SelfMadeHero

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 October 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: SelfMadeHero

Illustration: Full Colour Illustrations

Contributors:

Illustrated by Sheree Domingo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 170.0mm

Weight: 241g

Pages: 176

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Arts & Culture Dystopian Fiction Fiction Graphic Novels Patrick Spät

About the Author

Patrick Spät lives as a freelance author and editor in Berlin. He studied philosophy, sociology and literary history in Mannheim, Leipzig and Freiburg, ultimately receiving his doctorate in philosophy in 2010. As an author, he mainly deals with historical and socio-political topics. He was a finalist for the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung Comic Book Prize in 2019 with the graphic novel Der König der Vagabunden (The King of the Vagabonds), published by Avant Verlag. Sheree Domingo studied at the Kunsthochschule in Kassel and at the Luca School of Arts in Brussels. As a cartoonist, she works and lives in Berlin. She was a finalist of the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung Comic Book Prize in 2016 with her graphic novel Ferngespräch (Long Distance Call), published by Edition Morderne. In 2022 she and her collaborator Patrick Spät went on to win the same prize with the German edition of Madame Choi and the Monsters.