Turning the camera on himself, Lanzmann crafted this dispatch from North Korea to recount an experience he had there in 1958; while on a European delegation sent after the war, he chanced a flirtation with a Korean Red Cross nurse. Returning to militant Pyongyang under the guise of making a film about martial arts, he uses the anecdote to open an inquiry on direct human experience in the face of propaganda and repression.

In French with English subtitles

New York premiere

Introduction by Lanzmann associate Iris van der Waard on Nov 15