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A Man Who Was Superman

Korean Cinema Today

Social Criticism · Films about Film · (Super)hero  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2008
  • Running Time110min
  • Format HD
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
Tired of her job, TV producer Su-jung, who makes tear-jerking human documentaries for a living, decides to go to Africa to make a documentary about a lion. While an accident with her crew prevents her departure, she happens to meet a man who thinks of himself as Superman. Though she regards him as just another weirdo at first, his sincerity moves her. Characters in Chung Yoon-chul’s films always dream of a paradise. Like Cho-won in Malaton, Song longs for the wildness in Africa. What makes her find her own value and potential, however, is not Africa but rather her tiresome everyday life. As Superman says, “it’s not a powerful force but a little key that opens a big iron gate. All of us have that key”, A Man Who Was Superman brings out human value that each and everyone has in his or her mind. (LEE Sang-yong)
Director
JUNG Yoon chul
CHUNG Yoon-chul directed his debut short film, Recollection on the Bridge in 1997. He went on to direct the acclaimed feature Marathon (2005); Muhammad, the Hermit King in the human rights film project If You Were Me 3 ; and the odd family comedy, Skeletons in the Closet.
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Credit
  • Director JUNG Yoon chul 정윤철
  • Producer KIM Joo-sung
  • Cast HWANG Jung-min, Gianna JUN
  • Screenplay KIM Ba-da, OON Jin-ho 윤진호, CHUNG Yoon-chul
  • Cinematography CHOI Young-hwan
  • Production Design KIM Min-oh
  • Editor KIM Yang-il
  • Sound LEE Sung-jin, LEE Seung-chul
  • Music LEE Hanna
  • Production Company CJ ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    3 Fl., 602, Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul KOREA
    eimi@cj.net

  • World Sales CJ ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    3 Fl., 602, Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul KOREA
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