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Choi Eun-hee is a Actor Sud coréenne born on 20 november 1926
Choi Eun-hee (born November 20, 1926) is a South Korean actress. She began her film career in 1947 in the film A New Oath. For the next 20 years, she was one of the biggest stars in Korean film and led the Shin Film company along with her husband, the director Shin Sang-ok.
In 1978, Choi and Shin, whom she had recently divorced due to Shin having committed adultery, were kidnapped to North Korea by order of Kim Jong-il. Kim's plan was to have Shin work as his propagandist and for Choi to be the star. Shortly after agreeing to the demands of Kim, they were remarried at his recommendation. The couple finally staged their escape in 1986 while on a trip to Vienna, fleeing to the United States embassy and requesting political asylum. Choi appeared in eighty-one films. She received the award for best actress at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival in 1985, for her part in the film Sogum.
With Shin, she wrote an account of their years in Pyongyang. Shin also wrote his autobiography shortly before his death.
In 2015, an English-language biography of her life (along with Shin Sang-ok) was published by Paul Fischer titled A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker.
En janvier 1978, Choi Eun-hee est enlevée à Hong Kong sur ordre de Kim Jong-il, le fils du dictateur nord-coréen Kim Il-sung. Shin Sang-ok est à son tour enlevé six mois plus tard. Kim souhaite qu'ils travaillent sur des films de propagande à la gloire du régime nord-coréen. Ils sont également autorisés à réaliser des films à valeur artistique . Elle obtiendra même le prix de la Meilleure Actrice au Moscou Film Festival pour l'un des films réalisés pendant sa captivité, Sault. Après avoir réalisé une série de films entre 1983 et 1986, le couple (ils se sont remariés en 1983 à la demande de Kim) parvient à s'échapper en se réfugiant à l'ambassade américaine de Vienne. Ils vivront dix ans aux États-Unis avant de rentrer en Corée du Sud. Le régime nord-coréen a toujours nié les avoir enlevé, déclarant qu'ils étaient venus en Corée du Nord pour y trouver refuge.
Elle est morte le 16 avril 2018 à Gangseo-gu, à l'âge de 91 ans, d'une insuffisance rénale.
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Choi Eun-hee
In 1978, Choi and Shin, whom she had recently divorced due to Shin having committed adultery, were kidnapped to North Korea by order of Kim Jong-il. Kim's plan was to have Shin work as his propagandist and for Choi to be the star. Shortly after agreeing to the demands of Kim, they were remarried at his recommendation. The couple finally staged their escape in 1986 while on a trip to Vienna, fleeing to the United States embassy and requesting political asylum. Choi appeared in eighty-one films. She received the award for best actress at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival in 1985, for her part in the film Sogum.
With Shin, she wrote an account of their years in Pyongyang. Shin also wrote his autobiography shortly before his death.
In 2015, an English-language biography of her life (along with Shin Sang-ok) was published by Paul Fischer titled A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker.
Biography
Choi Eun-hee commence sa carrière en 1947 avec le film A New Oath, suivi de The Sun of the Night (1948) et de Maeumul gohyang (1949), qui lui ouvriront les portes de la célébrité. Elle est considérée comme l'une des plus grandes actrices des années 1950 et 1960 en Corée du Sud. En 1954, elle rencontre Shin Sang-ok, réalisateur sud-coréen qu'elle épouse la même année. Elle apparaîtra dans plus de 130 films de celui-ci, jusqu'à leur divorce en 1976. Elle avait découvert que son époux avait eu deux enfants avec sa maîtresse, Oh Su-mi.En janvier 1978, Choi Eun-hee est enlevée à Hong Kong sur ordre de Kim Jong-il, le fils du dictateur nord-coréen Kim Il-sung. Shin Sang-ok est à son tour enlevé six mois plus tard. Kim souhaite qu'ils travaillent sur des films de propagande à la gloire du régime nord-coréen. Ils sont également autorisés à réaliser des films à valeur artistique . Elle obtiendra même le prix de la Meilleure Actrice au Moscou Film Festival pour l'un des films réalisés pendant sa captivité, Sault. Après avoir réalisé une série de films entre 1983 et 1986, le couple (ils se sont remariés en 1983 à la demande de Kim) parvient à s'échapper en se réfugiant à l'ambassade américaine de Vienne. Ils vivront dix ans aux États-Unis avant de rentrer en Corée du Sud. Le régime nord-coréen a toujours nié les avoir enlevé, déclarant qu'ils étaient venus en Corée du Nord pour y trouver refuge.
Elle est morte le 16 avril 2018 à Gangseo-gu, à l'âge de 91 ans, d'une insuffisance rénale.
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Filmography of Choi Eun-hee (9 films)
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The Phantom Queen (1967)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama
Actors Choi Eun-hee, Kim Jin-kyu, Park Noh-sik
Towards then end of the Goryeo Dynasty, King Gongmin, grieving for the death of Queen Noguk, gives power to a corrupt and lecherous monk.
Deaf Sam Yong (1964)
, 1h26Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Choi Eun-hee, Park Noh-sik, Do Kum-bong
Rating66%
A deaf farmhand is in love with the landlord's daughter-in-law.
Red Scarf (1964)
, 1h40Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Shin Young-kyun, Choi Eun-hee, Choi Moo-ryong, Kim Jin-kyu, Namkoong Won, Park Am
Roles Ji-seon
Rating75%
The film is set in 1952 during the Korean War, and many Republic of Korea fighter pilots have fallen in the service of the nation. Of those that remain one of the bravest and best is Major Na Gwan-jung, in the air he is cool and level headed, and directly and swiftly dispatches the enemy with a minimum of complication. On the ground he spends his time drinking with his comrades, the vagaries of life and death in wartime has led to the pilots adopting a live for the moment approach to life.
Rice (1963)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama
Actors Shin Young-kyun, Choi Eun-hee, Namkoong Won
Rating63%
Bound by Chastity Rule (1962)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama
Actors Choi Eun-hee, Shin Young-kyun
Rating68%
A melodrama based on a novel. A widow in an aristocratic family has an affair with a servant and bears him a son. The widow's in-laws drive the servant and his son away. As a man, the widow's son comes to visit her, but, bound by the custom that she must remain celibate after her husband's death, she cannot acknowledge him.
Mother and a Guest (1961)
, 1h43Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Choi Eun-hee, Do Kum-bong, Kim Jin-kyu, Shin Young-kyun, Heo Jang-kang
Roles Mother
Rating68%
An artist from Seoul visits the widow of a deceased friend in the countryside. The relationship between the friend's wife, her mother and the artist is depicted with reference to their concerns about social disapproval.
To the Last Day (1960)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama
Actors Choi Eun-hee, Kim Jin-kyu, Namkoong Won, Shin Seong-il
Rating32%
The Flower in Hell (1958)
, 1h27Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Choi Eun-hee
Roles Sonia
Rating63%
A young man comes to Seoul from the country in search of his older brother, who turns out to be making a living with a group of thieves who boost goods from a U.S. Army base and sell them on the black market. Both brothers become romantically involved with the same prostitute.
Directed by Kim Ki-young
Actors Choi Eun-hee
The film is a melodrama about a man who resigns from the army to become a farmer.