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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 The Director Is the Commander
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'We were all propagandists; the only differences were our goals.'

Looking for respite from her crumbling marriage and determined to stop a coal seam gas mine near her Sydney home, filmmaker Anna Broinowski finds wisdom and inspiration in the strangest of places: North Korea. Guided by the late Dear Leader Kim Jong Il's manifesto The Cinema and Directing, Broinowski, in a world first, travels to Pyongyang to collaborate with North Korea's top directors, composers and movie stars to make a powerful anti-fracking propaganda film.

The Director is the Commander centres around the bizarre twenty-one day shoot Broinowski did in North Korea to make her documentary, Aim High in Creation! She meets and befriends artists and apparatchiki, defectors and loyalists, and gains a new insight into the world's most secretive regime. Her adventures are set against a parallel exploration of propaganda in general: both in its ham-fisted North Korean form and its sophisticated but no less pervasive incarnation in the corporate West.

Funny, multi-layered and utterly compelling, The Director is the Commander is a gripping account of an extraordinary journey inside a nation we can usually only see from the outside looking in.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2015 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 336p.
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      • Published: 27/05/2015
      ISBN: 9781743483367

Works about this Work

Calling Australia Home 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 May 2015; (p. 6)

— Review of The Director Is the Commander Anna Broinowski , 2015 single work autobiography
Calling Australia Home 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 May 2015; (p. 6)

— Review of The Director Is the Commander Anna Broinowski , 2015 single work autobiography
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    North Korea,
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    Korea, East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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