UNDER THE SUN Documentary Screening at Webster University This Weekend

UNDER THE SUN screens Friday January 27th through Sunday January 29th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30 all three evenings. 

After years of negotiation the Russian director Vitaly Mansky was invited by the North Korean government to make a film about one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children’s Union, on the ‘Day of the Shining Star’ (Kim Jong-Il’s birthday).  “My father says that Korea is the most beautiful country…” says eight-year-old Zin-mi. And so it might seem as Mansky films her in joyous, patriotic school pageants and in dance class, or with her parents, eating delicious food in their picturesque apartment. But the government handlers supervising the production did not realize that Mansky kept filming even after they had shouted, “Cut.” UNDER THE SUN is the jaw-dropping result.

The critics have been praising UNDER THE SUN:

“surreal and sinister… real-life version of THE TRUMAN SHOW.” —The Hollywood Reporter

“There’s journalistic filmmaking, and then there’s what Vitaly Mansky does in Under The Sun: a feat of truth-telling so daring that watching it makes you feel like a co-conspirator.” – The Toronto Sun

“It’s extraordinary how revealing Manskiy’s film is even before he begins to include behind the scenes ‘outtakes’…we come away with a portrait of a brainwashed people told what to do every waking moment since their births.” – Reeling Reviews

Admission is:

$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.

Advance tickets are available from the cashier before each screening or contact the Film Series office (314-246-7525) for more options. The Film Series can only accept cash or check.

The Webster University Film Series site can be found HERE

http://www.webster.edu/film-series/