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The MA-NIM

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Rural · Love/Romance · Social Criticism · Women

CountryKorea
Production Year1984
Running Time135min
Format35mm
ColorColor

Program Note

The proud and virtuous Ma-nim(lady of the house) decides a surrogate, Sa-wol, will be used to continue the family line. Her son loves his wife and is unwilling but is forced to sleep with Sa-wol. Sa-wol does as she is asked but suspects she was not with the man of the house, but a servant instead. When the baby is born, Ma-nim tries to separate the child from Sa-wol, afraid that the secret will get out. A cruel tragedy born of the feudal mentality, the film is made impressive by the actresses Won Mi-kyung, Kim Yong-seon and Park Jung-ja. (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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