<P> On the Art of the Cinema is mandatory reading for North Korean students of literature . North Korean filmmakers must also study the work, or even memorize it . On the Art of the Cinema also influenced South Korea's minjung - oriented People's Cinema (MR: minjung yŏnghwa) movement that was born out of the Gwangju Democratization Movement . The work's influence goes beyond Korea, too . Australian Anna Broinowski directed Aim High in Creation!, a movie about making a propaganda film abiding by Kim's instructions . Danish documentarist Mads Brügger in his The Red Chapel is shown continuously consulting the treatise for artistic guidance . </P> <P> The work is included in Selected Works of Kim Jong Il Vol. 5 . (enlarged edition). The first three chapters of On the Art of the Cinema are also published as Life and Literature, The Cinema and Directing and The Character and the Actor, respectively . A reprint of the English edition of On the Art of the Cinema has been issued by University Press of the Pacific . Three speeches that were not included in the English editions--"Some Problems Arising in the Creation of Masterpieces" (1968), "Let Us Create More Revolutionary Films Based on Socialist Life" (1970), and "On the Ideological and Artistic Characteristics of the Masterpiece, The Fate of a Self - Defence Corps Man" (1970)--are included in the Korean edition from 1977 . </P> <P> Translations of On the Art of the Cinema include Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish . </P>

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