Americans in Pyongyang

Summary 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. View more details

Americans in Pyongyang

Directed : Ayelet Heller

Written : Unknown

Stars : Unknown

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Genres : War Documentary

Release date : Oct 17, 1943

Countries of origin : Germany North Korea

Filming locations : Pyongyang, North Korea

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : War Documentary

Release date : Oct 17, 1943

Countries of origin : Germany North Korea

Filming locations : Pyongyang, North Korea

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