''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. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

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, ...

. It was entered into the

36th Berlin International Film Festival The 36th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held 14–25 February 1986. The festival opened with '' Ginger and Fred'' by Federico Fellini, which played out of competition at the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to West German ...

Plot

In 1983,

KBS The Korean Broadcasting System (KBS; ) is the national broadcaster of South Korea. Founded in 1927, it is one of the leading South Korean television and radio broadcasters under the government of South Korea. The KBS operates seven radio net ...

launched a campaign to reunite families torn apart in the

Korean War The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was s ...

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 Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second list of cities in South Korea by population, most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million as of 2024. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economi ...

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, Chūseinan Province, Korea under Japanese rule, Korea, Empire of Japan in 1940. While a student of Deok ...

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'' ...

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 Grand Prize Paeksang Arts Award (Film) winners {{1980s-drama-film-stub