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Dooman River

Korean Cinema Today

Social Criticism · Children · Politics/Conspiracy  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2010
  • Running Time89min
  • Format 35mm
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
The film depicts the life of Korean-Chinese people living on the Dooman River. When hearing the news that people have died on the frozen Dooman River, the film compares the keen response of elderly men with the insensitive reaction of the children. Children and Chang-ho meet Jung-jin who comes from North Korea and asks of food. They promise to Jung-jin that they will bring some food, and suggest playing a soccer game. The most interesting scene of the film is that Jung-jin plays a soccer game with kids after the other children from North Korea have left. The innocent intimacy among children not considering ideology and political relationship contrasts with the weight of reality the adult bears. Most of the parents of the Korean-Chinese kids left for Korea to work and people who cross the border are not welcomed in the town where only elderly people and children live. With the barren landscape of the ‘Dooman River’, this film portrays the reality over the friendship between Chang-ho and Jung-jin from North Korea. (LEE Sang-yong)
Director
Director
Zhang Lu
Born in 1962, author and director ZHANG Lu earned acclaim for three films: a short called Eleven (2001); his feature film, Tang Poetry (2003); and Grain in Ear (2005), which was selected in La Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Film Festival, and received the New Currents Award at the 10th PIFF.
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Credit
  • Director Zhang Lu 장률
  • Producer LEE Jeongjin, Guillaume de Seille, WOO Hye Kyung
  • Cast CUI Jian, YIN Lan, LI Jinglin, LIN Jinlong
  • Screenplay ZHANG Lu
  • Cinematography XU Wei
  • Production Design ZHU Guangxuan
  • Editor François QUIQUERE
  • Sound WANG Ran, Marc NOUYRIGAT, Frédéric THERY
  • Production Company LU Film
    4F. 12 Dongsomun-dong 2-ga 14-32 Seongbuk-gu Seoul 135-032 Korea
    lufilm@paran.com

  • World Sales Arizona Films
    5 Bldg. Barbes Paris 75018 France
    guillaume@arizonafilms.net