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Paul Fischer is the author of A Kim Jong-Il Production (2015), shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Dagger and chosen as an Amazon Best of the Year Nonfiction Selection, one of Library Journal’s Top Ten Books of the Year, one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best of 2015, and one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year, and The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures (2022), a New York Times Editor’s Choice and selected as one of the Times’s Best True Crime Books of the year. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Independent, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and the Narwhal.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 6,881 ratings · 895 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power 4.21 avg rating — 6,282 ratings — published 2015 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies 3.57 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Censorship became so stringent that even a scene in which a character complained too strongly about the weather could be considered “antisocial” and ordered removed.”
― Paul Fischer, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

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“Shrimp among whales we may be, but some of us refuse to accept the whales as the masters of our own fate. Looking at Choi Eun-Hee, there is a lot to be said for that.”
― Paul Fischer, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

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“when Shin needed special-effects scale models to achieve a shot of an exploding train for the climax of Runaway, he asked, tongue-in-cheek, whether Kim wouldn’t just give him instead a real train to blow up. To his surprise, an actual, functioning train was delivered to the set, loaded to the brim with explosives. Shin had only one take to get it right, but that was a lovely problem to have. Runaway’s final train explosion became one of North Korean cinema’s iconic images.”
― Paul Fischer, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

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Fuga dal Campo 14 di Blaine Harden

8 votes, 30.8%

La ragazza dai sette nomi: La mia fuga dalla Corea del Nord di Hyeonseo Lee

5 votes, 19.2%

Per mano nel buio di Barbara Demick

4 votes, 15.4%

La mia lotta per la libertà di Yeonmi Park

3 votes, 11.5%

La saga dei 3 Kim di Domenico Vecchioni

2 votes, 7.7%

Una produzione Kim Jong-Il: La storia incredibile ma vera della Corea del Nord e del più audace rapimento di tutti i tempi di Paul Fischer

2 votes, 7.7%

Pyongyang di Guy Delisle

2 votes, 7.7%

Dossier Corea: Viaggio nel regime più isolato del mondo di Geri Morellini

0 votes, 0.0%

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