Liberation Day

Name: Liberation Day
Genre: Music, Musical, Documentary
Released: October 18, 2017
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Boris Benko, Janez Gabric, Luka Jamnik, Mary Sun Kim, Matej Gobec

2017

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Dogwoof Global Sales | Release Date: October 18, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Boris Benko, Janez Gabric, Luka Jamnik, Mary Sun Kim, Matej Gobec, Milan Fras, Primoz Hladnik, Rok Lopatic, Tomaz Cubej, Tomislav Gangl

Summary: Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat and to the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first foreign rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get theirUnder the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat and to the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first foreign rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs through the needle's eye of censorship before they can be unleashed on an audience never before exposed to alternative rock'n'roll. Meanwhile, propaganda loudspeakers are being set up at the border between the two Koreas and a countdown to war is announced. The hills are alive...with the sound of music.… Expand

Director: Morten Traavik and Ugis Olte

Genre(s): Music, Musical, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 16, 2017

The mystery remains: did the North Koreans get it? Did they not get it? Or did they choose a foggy condition of semi-incomprehension as the only state in which they could reconcile ideological piety with reaching out the hated west? Read full review

Guy Lodge

Oct 16, 2017

Billed as a “documentary musical,” this potential crowd-pleaser gets considerable comic mileage out of the friction between two very different brands of cultural eccentricity — but it succeeds as more than a diverting novelty, packed as it is with pointed observations on diplomacy and censorship in a country that’s still a mystery to many. Read full review

Noel Murray

Oct 26, 2017

More detail about how this concert came to be — and what it means to both the performers and their patrons — would’ve made Liberation Day more illuminating, at least as a piece of journalism. But there’s a subtly meaningful power to what the film actually does. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Oct 18, 2017

Rather than spend more time with the band, Traavik tries to milk additional drama from North Korea’s diplomatic tensions. Read full review

Peter Goldberg

Oct 15, 2017

Throughout, the documentary wavers between a sincere investigation of the avant-garde music group Laibach and self-satire. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Oct 18, 2017

Liberation Day, a documentary of preparations for the concert directed by Mr. Traavik and Ugis Olte, is a consistently understated chronicle of Westerners who are very carefully playing with fire. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Oct 17, 2017

The odd subject matter should have made for a riveting film, but, like many documentaries, Liberation Day (the title refers to the North Korean holiday celebrating the anniversary of the end of Japanese rule) feels both too short and too long. Read full review

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