Video: Actress kidnapped by Kim Jong Il and awarded in Moscow for film made for him dies
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the 92nd year, the legendary actress Che Yun Hee passed away, whose life Kim Jong Il turned into a real thriller. He kidnapped a woman and forced her to make films in Pyongyang for a long period of time. The Daily Mail recalled her life that day.
Glory in his native South Korea came to Che Yun back in the distant 50s. She began her ascent up the career ladder with the film "The New Oath", and over the next twenty years was one of the most important actresses in the country. Among her fans was even Kim Jong Il, who was so partial to her talent and creativity that in 1978 he issued instructions to kidnap Che Yun.
According to the Daily Mail, during her arrival in Hong Kong, the woman was fraudulently lured onto a boat, then transported the unfortunate woman to a North Korean ship, after which she was pumped with tranquilizers and did not feed until her arrival in Pyongyang, i.e. about 8 days.
In addition to the actress, Kim Jong Il also stole (or convinced everyone to move - the details are not clear) and the woman's husband so that he and his wife would shoot films for him. For the creativity of his favorites, the kidnapper did not spare anything - for example, when in one of the films it was necessary to depict a catastrophe on the railway tracks, he singled out a real locomotive specially for this purpose, which was stuffed with dynamite. And when the film required windy weather, a helicopter was ordered to circle over the set.
In tandem with her husband and surrounded by a squad of guards and overseers, Che Yun Hee presented North Korean films at world film festivals. In her memoirs, the woman was frank and wrote that, returning to the DPRK, she often cried and thought that if she had not become an actress, then all this horror would not have happened.
In 1985, she was in the Russian capital, where she was presented with an award for the film "Salt" at the film festival.
The couple was able to escape from their captivity only in 1986, when they arrived in Berlin. In Europe, they took refuge at the US Embassy in Vienna, where they were greeted with the phrase "Welcome to the West." The woman lived in America for more than ten years, and at the end of the twentieth century she returned to her native Seoul.
And despite the fact that during the hostilities and the division of the country into two parts, North Korea stole for itself about 500 residents of South Korea, as well as dozens of nationals from Japan, it was the case of the theft of the actress that turned out to be the most resonant.
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