Seems Dear Leader is not only the world’s best golfer, lover, painter, and novelist, he’s’ quite the filmmaker, too:

The biggest movie sensation of the season has been the film made under Kim’s wise leadership called “Diary of a Student Girl”, the North’s KCNA news agency said.

“(It) is screened before full houses in Pyongyang every day, evoking lively response from people of all walks of life,” it said.

Unlike the big movies from Hollywood this summer, there are no pirates, animated cars or mutants making a last stand in the North Korean movie billed as a “close companion of life”.

North Korea’s student girl works with her younger sister in

pursuit of scientific endeavours. Through their work they overcome hardships, better understand their parents and are instilled with pride in the nation and its military-first policy.

Even before it was released, official media said it would be listed as a masterpiece.

Minister of Culture Kang Nung-su praised the film as “the fruit borne under the wise leadership of Kim Jong-il, a great master in art,” KCNA reported.

Via Briah Doherty, who finds the real story in the article buried at the bottom.

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