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The White Crow

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Family · Love/Romance · War

CountryKorea
Production Year1967
Running Time100min
Format35mm
ColorColor

Program Note

Here we meet a teenaged Ahn Sung-ki. During the Korean War in 1951, Sang-han and Dong-in smuggle 20 million won to Busan. Dong-in disappears during the job, and five years pass. In that time Sang-han gains success in the furniture business, and takes care of Dong-in’s wife and children. He falls in love with Dong-in’s wife and finally marries her despite opposition from his father. His hopes for happily ever after are thwarted when Dong-in reappears after 13 years captive in North Korea. The tragedy of war and division is reborn in this film as a passionate melodrama. (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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