Dollar Heroes
Currency for the dictator
100,000 forced labourers worldwide are working to provide foreign currency for North Korea’s regime – even in the European Union. This investigative documentary exclusively shows the inhumane conditions under which North Korean labour brigades are forced to live and work, and it sheds an important light on how this state-organised human trafficking helps to finance Kim Jong-un’s nuclear program.
ARTE – 52 min.
Awards:
Best Documentary, 59. Festival De Television De Monte-Carlo
Editor
Susanne Mertens (ZDF/ARTE)
A Co-Production by
a&o buero filmproduktion and Moonlight Films, South Korea
Editing
Ramon Urselmann
Camera and Camera Assistent
Carl Gierstorfer, Sebastian Weis, Maciej Smich, Youndoo Chung, David Jo, Noh Jae-Yun, Jens Paschke
Music by
Nils Kacirek
Graphics
KIM&HIM
Research
Katarzyna Tuszynska, Kyuwook Oh, Andreas Rossbach, Maciej Smich, Mark Siegmund, Hanna Gieffers, Christian Vonscheidt
Sound and Sounddesign
Roman Vehlken, Milan Meyer-Kaya
Color correction
Andreas Piecha
Translation
Jin-Man Jun, Jiyoung Youn, Forest Ian Etsler
Legal Advisor
Ralph Graef
Production
Alexandra Obradovic
In Coproduction with
ARTE, The Why Foundation, KBS, BBC, CBC, DR, EO, NHK, NRK, SVT
With Participation of
Against Gravity, BHRT, Czech TV, ERR, LRT, RUV, SRF, TV3, UR, YES/DBS, YLE
With Support of
MEDIA, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, KCA, The Open University, EBU, DANIDA
