The Lovers & the Despot

The story of the South Korean actor, Choi Eun-hee, and her ex-husband and film director, Shin Sang-ok, who were individually kidnapped and reunited by dictator and film fan Kim Jong-il to force them to develop North Korea's film industry.

The Lovers & the Despot is a 2016 biography thriller movie, starring Paul Courtenay Hyu, Shin Sang-ok, Choi Eun-hie. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.6/10 from 1,123 votes and runs 1h 38m.