Mild-mannered Nam Chul-woo, a North Korean fisherman who lives with his wife and daughter in a village on the border with South Korea, is involved in a minor boating accident. His fishing net gets caught in the boat's engine, making it impossible to manoeuvre, and the current carries Nam southwards. Once he crosses the border, the fisherman is captured by the South Korean authorities and immediately accused of being a spy. Kim Ki-duk, one of the masters of Korean cinema, is the author of THE ISLE (2000), 3-IRON (2004) and PIETÀ (Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2012).
Screenings
Il prigioniero Coreano is part of this program:
from 08 April
Director
Kim Ki-duk
Kim Ki-duk, born in 1960 e prematurely deceased in 2020, was a South Korean filmmaker renowned for his austere visual style and provocative storytelling. Largely self-taught, he developed a distinctive cinematic language marked by sparse dialogue, symbolic imagery, and themes of isolation, violence, redemption, and spirituality. His films combine poetic minimalism with raw emotional intensity and moral ambiguity.
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