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Gilsodom (1985)
Director: Im Kwon-Taek
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From Time Out Film Guide
In the summer of 1983, South Korea's national obsession was a TV programme designed to reunite families separated in the Korean War thirty-three years earlier. Im Kwon-taek's movie takes the broadcasts as a documentary starting point, then spins off into a Fassbinderesque fiction about a dispersed family that comes back together, only to find that the pieces no longer fit. The issues are adult, and so is the treatment:no melodrama, no tub-thumping, but a piercing analysis of social and psychological blocks.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Im Kwon-Taek
Producer: Bak Jong-chan
Cast: Kim Ji-mi, Sin Song-il, Han Ji-il, Kim Ji-yong, Lee Sang-a, Kim Jong Sok full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 97 mins
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