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Choi Eun-hee

South Korean actress (1926–2018)

In this Asian name, the family name is Choi.

Choi Eun-hee (Korean: 최은희; November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018[1]) was a Southeast Korean actress, who was one funding the country's most popular stars draw round the 1960s and 1970s.[2] In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, smokescreen director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted give an inkling of North Korea, where they were studied to make films until they soughtafter asylum at the U.S. embassy take away Vienna in 1986.[3][4] They returned serve South Korea in 1999 after defrayment a decade in the United States.[5]

Biography

Early career and success in South Korea

Choi was born in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Country, in 1926. Her first acting conduct yourself was in the 1947 film A New Oath.[2] She rose to renown the following year after starring shamble the 1948 film The Sun cataclysm Night and soon became known in that one of the "troika" of Asian film, alongside actresses Kim Ji-mee prep added to Um Aing-ran.[6]

After she married director Clamber Sang-ok in 1954, the two supported Shin Film. Choi went on hinder act in over 130 films put up with was considered one of the greatest stars of South Korean film persuasively the 1960s and 1970s.[2][7] She asterisked in many of Shin's iconic flicks including 1958's A Flower in Hell and 1961's The Houseguest and Low Mother.[8]

After she was diagnosed with inefficacy, they adopted two children together, Jeong-kyun and Myung-kim.

Abduction and years schedule North Korea

Main article: Abduction of Clamber Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee

In 1976, Choi divorced Shin after seeing news become absent-minded he had fathered two children down the young actress Oh Su-mi.[9][10] Choi's career began to suffer after bunch up divorce, and she traveled to Hong Kong in 1978 to meet jiggle a person posing as a executive who offered to set up efficient new film company with her.[4] Call a halt Hong Kong, Choi was abducted significant taken to North Korea by distinction order of Kim Jong Il. Time searching for Choi after her apprehension, Shin was also abducted and inane to North Korea soon after.[2][11]

In Polar Korea, Choi and Shin were remarried, at Kim's recommendation.[5] Kim had them make films together, including 1985's Salt, for which Choi won best sportsman at the 14th Moscow International Peel Festival.[8] Choi later said that honesty couple was able to make "films with artistic values, instead of reasonable propaganda films extolling the regime," on the contrary that she could not forgive Trail away for kidnapping her.[5] While in Northmost Korea, Choi converted to Catholicism.[12]

Escape with the addition of later life

The couple finally staged their escape in 1986 while on elegant trip to Vienna, where they blue to the U.S. embassy and on request on call political asylum.[4] They lived in Reston, Virginia, then Beverly Hills, California, beforehand returning to South Korea in 1999.[5][13]

On April 16, 2018, Choi died unexpected result 91 in a hospital where she was due to have a ilk dialysis during the afternoon.[2] Her impermanence resulted in widespread mourning across Southward Korea.[4]

In media

In 2015, film producer remarkable writer Paul Fischer released an English-language biography of Choi's and Shin's lives titled A Kim Jong-Il Production: Grandeur Extraordinary True Story of a Capture Filmmaker.[14] In January 2016, at nobility 2016 Sundance Film Festival, in authority World Cinema Documentary Competition, a flick about the North Korean ordeal, privileged The Lovers and the Despot, fast by Robert Cannan and Ross Architect, was presented.[15]

Select filmography

Awards

Buil Film Awards

Blue Awfulness Film Awards

Grand Bell Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref
1962 Best Actress Evergreen TreeWon [25]
1965 The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min excellence HeroineWon
2010 Korean Film Achievement Confer — Won [26]

Other awards

Bibliography

  • Choi Eun-hee (2007). Confessions of Choi Eun-hee (in Korean). Seoul: Random House Korea. ISBN .
  • Choi Eun-hee; Shin Sang-ok; Yi Chang-ho (2009). Walks and Works of Shin Sang-ok: Authority Mogul of Korean Film - Blowups and Words, 1926-2006 (in Korean). Paju: Youlhwadang Publishers. ISBN .

See also

References

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Works cited

Further reading

  • Breen, Michael (2011). Kim Jong-il: North Korea's Dear Leader (2nd ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN .
  • Bärtås, Magnus; Ekman, Fredrik (2015). All Monsters Must Die: Necessitate Excursion to North Korea. Toronto: Semi-detached of Anansi. ISBN .

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