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Border Line

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Family · Love/Romance · War

CountryKorea
Production Year1964
Running Time107min
Format35mm
ColorB&W

Program Note

Kwon-ho and his wife Duk-Kyung hold different ideologies but work together in the independence movement against Japan. After barely surviving a battle, they are eparated, each taking one of their twin sons, Dae-il and Han-il. Years pass, and Kwon-ho is the head of counterintelligence in South Korea when he is assassinated by Han-il from North Korea. While investigating his father’s murder, Dae-il meets his twin brother in a fateful confrontation. The film is a strong action-melodrama about modern history and the tragedy of division that showcases the level of creativity in 1960s Korean cinema. (NAM Dong-chul)

Director

CHUNG Jin Woo

Chung is a veteran filmmaker with 50 films from the debut feature The Only Son to Mugoonghwa-Korean National Flower. He brought a new wave of melodrama with distinctive use of music in such films as A Student Boarder(1966) and Green Rain(1966), and portrayed women’s tragic lives in his later works including Does Cuckoo Cry at Night(1980), Parrot Cries with Its Body and The MA-NIM(1984). He established Woojin Film and produced around 130 films, and also succeeded in importing foreign films, running theaters and distribution. He is currently serving as the board chairman of Korean Film Directors’ Association and Korean Filmmakers’ Welfare Foundation.

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