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The Lovers & the Despot full movie is released on Sep 23, 2016. Watch The Lovers & the Despot online - the Korean Documentary movie from United Kingdom , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $95,521. The Lovers & the Despot is directed by Ross Adam,Robert Cannan and created by Ross Adam with Eun-hie Choi and Paul Courtenay Hyu.
In 1970s South Korea, actor Choi Eun-hee and her ex-husband, film director Shin Sang-ok, were divorced, estranged and both struggling with stalled careers. Unfortunately, both their lives seemed changed forever when they were individually kidnapped in 1978 by their biggest fan, Kim Jong-il, despot of North Korea. With persuasion and brute force, the movie obsessed Kim planned to use them to develop the Hermit Kingdom's film industry and get it out of its mindless propaganda mentality. Through the words of Choi, their family, associates and US intelligence personnel, you will follow the story of the bizarre slavery of this couple even as they rediscovered their love and secretly gathered evidence of the dictator's crimes. All the while, they struggled to play along with the world's most dangerous film geek as they desperately planned their escape.
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