My Dictator (2014)

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• Movie: My Dictator
• Revised romanization: Naui Dogjaeja
• Hangul: 나의 독재자

• Director: Lee Hae-Jun
• Writer: Lee Hae-Jun, Park Chul-Hyun
• Producer: Jung Doo-Hwan, Kim Moo-Ryung
• Cinematographer: Kim Byung-Seo
• Release Date: October 30, 2014
• Runtime: 128 min.
• Genre: Period-1970 / Drama / North Korea
• Distributor: Lotte Entertainment
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Synopsis

Set in the 1970’s, prior to the first North Korea-South Korea summit in South Korea.

Sung-Geun (Sol Kyung-Gu) is a stage actor who is so passionate about his work. He only plays small characters. When his son Tae-Sik (Park Hae-Il) was young, he admired his father, but he now thinks of his father as a burden. Sung-Geun is soon to selected to play a double for North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung.