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In productionAn investigative feature documentary

God of
Pyongyang

How propaganda became a religion

A journalist gets inside North Korea and uncovers how the Kim dynasty built a working political religion, with its own god, scripture, relics, miracles, heaven, hell and devil.

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Picasso Film×Svet Solutions Media
The story

Brainwashing doesn’t feel like brainwashing from the inside.

Posing as a sympathetic journalist, Moez Ben Gharbia entered Pyongyang and filmed its rituals, relics and public devotion from the inside. His footage is the starting point of a film about belief manufactured by the state.

The film traces how Kim Il-sung became a divine “Eternal President”, how ideology and institutions keep that faith alive, how a caste system and labour camps enforce it, and how the divine story passes to Kim Jong-un. It ends at the Demilitarized Zone, with a question that reaches far beyond North Korea.

Format
Feature documentary, 90′
Genre
Investigative documentary
Status
In production
Credits
A film by Moez Ben Gharbia · Directed by Max Serio
Production
A Picasso Film production, co-produced with Svet Solutions Media
Why it matters
  • Rare accessFootage filmed inside North Korea, away from the official tour.
  • A new frameNot just a dictatorship: a functioning political religion.
  • Ritual as controlRelics, pilgrimages, caste and camps as tools of power.
  • A universal questionWhat protects any society from its own myths?
Trailer

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