The Fear Leader (2018)

The name of the totalitarian country is Optimistan, where Candide (the butterfly-researcher = lepidopterist) unintentionally crosses border chasing after a special kind of butterfly which happens to wear the same colors as Optimistan's national flag. He is imprisoned and sentenced to death immediately. His punishment is to watch the propaganda film of Optimistan, and his leader Pan-jong, a transformed fat Master Pangloss, who is the ultimate miracolous ruler of the country. (In the propaganda film we show a little train in the countryside which is said to be built by the Leader for the People, this is based on true story: but not only in North Korea, also in Hungary, but this hint was banned by the Hungarian Media Authorities... ) We can see Cunegunde as the anchor of the state TV, who is the wife of the Leader. At the end of the propaganda film the naive and optimistic Candide, who doesn't realise the film is a lie and he is under arrest of a dictator, applies to get citizenship. This is a never-before seen wonder for the locals, so they help him to become a citizen and he finds himself in the huge representative Birthday of the Leader March (by the People of Optimistan). Pan-jong makes a speach in which he emphasises the positive turn of the Western citizen, who became the new citizen of the country voluntarily! Meanwhile Cunegunde, the wife of the Leader who happens to be seated next to Candide, signals to Candide to save her and get her out of the country.