''Gilsoddeum'' is a 1986 South Korean

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Im Kwon-taek Im Kwon-taek (born December 8, 1934) is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and h ...

. It was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot

In 1983 KBS launched a campaign to reunite families torn apart in the

Korean War , date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...

three decades earlier. In an expert dissection of the social and familial rifts in modern Korea, director

integrates footage from the campaign into the story of Hwa-yeong, who leaves her middle-class life in

Busan Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, ...

to search for the son she lost in Gilsotteum during the war.

Cast

Kim Ji-mee Kim Ji-mee (born July 15, 1940) is a South Korean actress, producer, and film planner whose activity began in 1957. She was born in Daedeok, South Chungcheong province, Korea in 1940. While a student of Deokseong Girls' High School, Kim was cast ...

as Hwa-yeong *

Shin Seong-il Shin Seong-il (May 8, 1937 – November 4, 2018) was a South Korean actor, film director, producer, and former politician. A legendary actor with 500 films in over 40 years, Shin debuted in director Shin Sang-ok's 1960 film ''A Romantic Papa'' a ...

as Dong-jin * Han Ji-il * Kim Ji-young * Lee Sang-a

Production

In this film Lee Sang-a has brief love scenes and a full rear nude shot. The actress, who was 13 or 14 years old during filming, revealed in 2015 that she was forced to do the nude scene by director

References

External links

* * 1986 films 1980s Korean-language films 1986 drama films Films directed by Im Kwon-taek South Korean drama films category:Grand Prize Paeksang Arts Award (Film) winners {{1980s-drama-film-stub