The New King is Childhood, 1974 (16mm negative, 2K/Sound scan)

Location: Pyongyang, North Korea Creator: Luigi Perelli A report on the condition of childhood in the Korean People's Republic twenty years after the end of the war between South Korea, supported by North American imperialism, and North Korea. “The king is dead, the new king is childhood”: a phrase that is often repeated to indicate that in that country children are reserved for all the best that can be produced: the best nutrition, warmer clothes, education and the most appropriate living conditions. The footage documents the lives of children in kindergartens, schools, homes, gyms and sports facilities, parks and highlights the great importance that training assumes cultural, through their creative participation in games, drawing, musical performances, dance. 01. Nursery interiors; children play, sleep in beds, sing 02. Crowd of young people and children celebrate in front of the Pyongyang Pioneer Palace on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the birth of the republic 03. People in the streets; factory workers 04. Children in a nursery during the day's activities: games (bicycles, swings, swimming pool, slides, etc.); rest in the beds; lunch in the cafeteria; a music lesson 05. Pyongyang families at the park; boat trips on the Taedong River 06. Children visit Pyongyang Zoo 07. An elementary school; classroom lessons; exercises in technical-scientific laboratories; art education lessons 08. A dance show in the Pioneer Palace 09. Children in the workshops in the Pioneer Palace 10. A family's apartment in Pyongyang