Title: A Schoolgirl's Diary
AKA: The Schoolgirl's Diary
Year: 2007
Original title: Han Nyeohaksaengeui Ilgi | 한 녀학생의 일기
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Country: North Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama
Director: Jang In-Hak
Cast
Mi-hyang Pak ... Su-ryeon
Jin-mi Kim ... Su-ok, her elder sister
Cheol Kim ... San-myeong, her father
Jeong-mi Kim
Myeong-woon Kim
Yeong-suk Kim ... Jeong Ran, her Mother
Hak-myeong Shin
Plot / Reviews
The Schoolgirl's Diary (or The Journal of a Schoolgirl) is a 2006 North Korean film directed by Jang In-hak. It debuted at the 2006 Pyongyang Film Festival as one of two films produced domestically that year, and was released in France at the end of 2007. - Wikipedia
The film depicts a North Korean teenager’s struggle to understand her father’s devotion to his country, and to scientific achievement at the expense of his own family’s happiness. Spending the vast majority of his time at work as a computer engineer in a distant town, he leaves his two daughters, wife, and mother-in-law to live in their dilapidated rural home. In questioning her father’s values, the rebellious teen begins to defy her mother, a hardworking librarian who spends her evenings translating scientific articles for her absentee husband. The protagonist realizes how selfish she has been only after her father makes a major breakthrough in his scientific research and is lavished with praise for his self-sacrifice and devotion to the state. The film’s screenwriters reportedly received guidance in drafting the script from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
...The Schoolgirl’s Diary was reportedly watched by over 8 million North Koreans, nearly one-third of the population of the DPRK. A French company purchased the distribution rights for the film in French-speaking European countries, a first for a North Korean film, but the film was poorly-received by French moviegoers, and was shown in only five theaters across France in 2007. ... -- North Korea International Documentation Project
A self-absorbed teen learns to respect her parents' hard work and devotion in "The Schoolgirl's Diary," a well-lensed and largely underplayed North Korean dramedy whose curiosity value could be turned into specialty Western sales by devoted distribs. Pic won't come close to replicating the massive local success it had in it's August release (a reported 8 million admissions, roughly a third of the population), but it reps a slick snapshot of contempo life in the hermit state. -- Derek Elley, Variety.com
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Technical Specs
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Video Bitrate: 1580 Kbps
Frame Rate: 25.000 fps
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 720 x 416
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Audio Format: MP3 VBR 2ch
Audio Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Sampling rate: 48000 Hz