Under the Sun

This is a film about the ideal life in an ideal country. About how new ideal people are joining this perfect world. We can see how much effort the North Korean people have to exert to make this ideal world work. Every North Korean is ready to give his life for this world. We see the process of the creation of these ideals, we see a girl in an ideal school, the daughter of ideal parents, working in ideal factories, living in an ideal apartment in the center of the capital of North Korea. Αn ideal example of how a dystopian, totalitarian regime is established by a utopian discourse.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Cinematography: Alexandra Ivanova, Mikhail Gorobchuk
Editing: Andrej Paperny
Sound: Evgeniya Lachina, Anri Krenbergs
Music: Karlis Ausans
Production: Vertov.Real Cinema
Producers: Natalya Manskaya, Simone Baumann, Filip Remunda
Co-production: Saxonia Entertainment, Germany & Hypermarket Film, Czech Republic & MDR, Latvia & Czech TV, Czech Republic
Format: Color
Production Country: Russia-Latvia-Germany-Czech Republic-North Korea
Production Year: 2015
Duration: 106
Contact: Deckert Distribution info@deckert-distribution.com
Awards
Award for Best Central and Eastern European Documentary Film – Jihlava IDF 2015, Czech Republic
Special Jury Award, Jury Award for Best Director – Black Nights IFF 2015, Estonia

Vitaly Mansky

Filmography

1988 Boomerang (short)
1990 Post (short)
1993 Cuts of a Recurrent War (short)
1999 Private Chronicles. Monologue
2002 Broadway. Black Sea 
2006 Wild, Wild Beach 
2009 Beginning / Nikolina Gora. Epilogue 
2011 Motherland or Death 
2015 Under the Sun
2018 Putin’s Witnesses
2023 Eastern Front