In 2003 Song Du-yul, a philosophy professor, decides to go back to his homeland after spending thirty-seven years in Germany. Within a week after crossing the border, his reputation falls from a respected global political figure to an infamous communist spy. During a five-year-long trial, he was arrested and held in custody. This throws Korean society into turmoil and brings a big conflict between the Conservative and the Progressive parties. The filmmaker calmly contemplates this long period of the incident in detail and depicts a society with an indifferent manner. The story builds through an accretion of whimsical facts and it sometimes brings up uncomfortable truths which will irritate viewers. This film is a camera inside of us that evokes what viewers may have tried to forget.
South Korea
Documentary
104 minutes
2010
Hong Hyung-sook
Cinema Dal
2022
6.7
2023
0.0
1981
0.0
2002
0.0
2020
5.0
2020
5.5
2016
8.8
2022
0.0
2017
6.1
2019
7.9
2022
0.0
1957
0.0
2019
0.0
2023
0.0
2021
0.0
2013
0.0
2004
6.4
2015
7.0
2015
6.1
2019
0.0