Discover the roots of Korean cinema.

Through Korean Cinema

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Discover the roots of Korean cinema. A cinema who surprised by the success recorded in the major international festivals. Interviews to five famous Korean directors, to get to know closely the evolution of Korean cinema. Through their words, their pictures and their stories. The Korean cinema has tendency to describe both the society, the past and the modern. The world of west cinema knows these directors through the journey of some of their movies. What do we know about their thoughts, their life, their culture and their way of working? The documentary focus on it.

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Director: Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso

Starring Cast: Im Kwon-taek, Park Kwang-su, Lee Chang-dong, Lee Myung-se, Park Chan-wook

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Im Kwon-taek

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Park Kwang-su

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Lee Chang-dong

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Lee Myung-se

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Park Chan-wook

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