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Americans in Pyongyang

Americans in Pyongyang

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 16, 2008

Runtime

0h 53m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Americans in Pyongyang

Director

Ayelet Heller

Description

In summer 2007 the New York Philharmonic received an invitation that was unprecedented in the orchestra's history. North Korea, the world's most isolated and secluded country and technically at war with the United States, invited the orchestra to play in the capital of Pyongyang. Just a few months later, two hundred orchestra members and more than one hundred journalists disembarked from a chartered plane at Pyongyang's deserted airport. They were about to experience a historic moment, the first-ever performance by an American orchestra in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.