Liberation Day

A truly jaw-dropping experience, Liberation Day is the story of an encounter between Slovenian art rock behemoths Laibach and the totalitarian state of North Korea.

Morten Traavik, a Norwegian artist and theatre director, finds himself in the position to make history, when he is offered the chance to bring a Western rock band to play in Pyongyang for the first time. Laibach have made their name through mounting a bombastic reinterpretation of The Sound of Music (a film that’s bizarrely both legal and hugely popular in the ‘Democratic’ People’s Republic) and the ironic use of totalit...