비무장지대 (1965) aka The DMZ: Demilitarized Zone
IMDb Link........: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321451/
Web Link.........: http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/100_39.asp
Genre............: War/Documentary
Distributor......: Korean Federation of Film Archives
Year...............: 1965 (DVD release 2010)
Country..........: Korea
Director..........: Park Sang Ho
Runtime..........: 61 (+45 in extra features)
Also Known As.: The DMZ: Demilitarized Zone
Language........: Korean
Subtitles..........: English hardsubs, English & Korean idx/sub subs
Production Company : Jeil Films Co., Ltd
Date of Rate : 1965-12-09
Opening Theater : Academy Theater
Genre : Culture
Staff :
Screenplay(Adaptation) : Byeon Ha-Young
Producer : Hong Seong-Chil
Executive Producer : Kim Yong-Hwan
Director of PhotoGraphy : Ahn Yun-Hyeok
Gaffer : Kim Yong-Mo
Music : Kim Yong-Hwan
Art Director : Park Seok-In
Editor : Yoo Jae-Won
Cast(Actor/Actress) :
Cho Mi-Ryeong, NamGung Won, Joo Bin-Ah, Lee Young-Kwan
QUOTE:
| Long thought to be lost, the 1965 war classic The DMZ was rediscovered in 2005 and through the efforts of the Korean Film Archive, the seminal film now comes to DVD with English subtitles. One of director Park Sang Ho's most representative films, The DMZ looks at the devastation of war through the eyes of two children left in the demilitarized zone after the Korean War. In the summer of 1953, a young boy and girl find themselves in no man's land after the signing of the Korean War armistice. Encountering everything from landmines to a North Korean spy, they try their hardest to survive in the DMZ, but the war is far from over for these kids with nowhere left to go. Presented in semi-documentary fashion, the film was shot on location in the DMZ 12 years after the armistice, providing an emotionally harrowing and historically noteworthy account of life at the 49th parallel in the aftermath of the Korean War. This release includes a 45-minute Park Sang Ho documentary and still gallery, plus an English-Korean booklet. |
(Edited) Synopsis
Early summer of 1953, in the weeks leading up to the Armistice, North and South Korea were engaged in fierce battle as they alternately pushed forward and were pushed back again. After the Armistice is signed, two children who were caught in the back-and-forth shifting of the front line find themselves abandoned in the demilitarized zone (DMZ). The children a boy and a girl survive by picking up discarded military rations and roasting wild potatoes. They wander the DMZ and have various experiences...
Notes
Children are sacrificed by the ravages of war.
The DMZ had long been talked about as a "mythical masterpiece" because the where abouts of the actual film remained unknown for decades. Then, in 2005, the Korean Film Archive received The DMZ in Betamax format from the National Archives & Records Service, thus confirming the movie's existence and unveiling it to the world for the first time. Park Sang-ho's film exposes the atrocities of war through the eyes of two children who are stranded in the DMZ after the end of the Korean War. The DMZ, strewn with abandoned tanks, dead bodies, land mines, and unexploded shells, is an exceedingly dangerous place for children. But what most endangers them in the end are not weapons but people. The little boy loses his life at the hands of a North Korean spy. The girl survives alone and journeys southward at the movie's close, in a scene that powerfully denounces the cruelty of war (overtly, the North Korean communist regime) and its tendency to make sacrifices even of young children. The DMZ conveys an extraordinary message of anti-war by contrasting the threat war poses to children with their unsullied innocence. It differs from other dramatic movies of the time in that it does not have a closely woven plot, but it cannot be categorized as a documentary (as was the case when it was first released) since it basically presents a fictional tale.
Director Bio: Park Sang-ho (1931-2006)
Born in Seoul on September 24th, 1931. He graduated from Gyeongdong High School and dropped out of the Department of Business Administration at Yonsei University. He worked in theatre for a while and in 1955, began his life in movies by helping in the production of Director Shin Sang-ok's Dream (Kkum) (1955). He made his directorial debut the next year with The Sea (Haejeong) (1956). He directed and produced 24 fictional films and 26 documentary films. Of those, A Happy Businesswoman (Ttosuni) (1963), The DMZ (Bimujang Jidae) (1965) and Family Meeting (Gajog Hoe-ui) (1962) are considered his most important works. He was active during the late 50s and 60s, the golden age of Korean cinema, and usually made movies about family with a melodramatic element. He passed away in 2006. He is the older brother of actress Park Jung-ja.
also included:
(english subs embedded in mkv container)
Rip Specs:
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| Source...........: DVD5 Retail (R3) Main Feature General : The.DMZ.1965-POENiR.mkv Format : Matroska at 1258 Kbps Length : 556 MiB for 1h 1mn 47s 37ms Video #0 : AVC Aspect : 720 x 272 (2.647) at 23.976 fps Audio #0 : AAC Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Language : ko Extra feature: General : Making.of.The.DMZ.1965-POENiR.mkv Format : Matroska at 932 Kbps Length : 300 MiB for 45mn 0s 323ms Video #0 : AVC Aspect : 720 x 544 (1.324) at 23.976 fps Audio #0 : AAC Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Language : ko Text #0 : VobSub Language : en |
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