Description:
Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of the survivor of a North Korean labor camp, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime. Presented here for the first time in its entirety, his story not only testifies to the atrocities being committed behind North Korea's wall of silence, but it also illuminates the daily struggle to maintain dignity and integrity in the face of unbelievable odds.
Brief description: Suk-Young Kim is a professor of theater and East Asian studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010). I chose her for her expertise in North Korea and film.
Review Quotes: A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime.--John Feffer "Korean Quarterly "