Director: Jeon Soo-il
Screenplay: Jeon Soo-il
Cinematographer: Kim Sung-tai
Editing: Kim In-soo, Rho Bong-seo
Sound: Lee Sung-chul
Music: Kim Hyung-suk
Art Director: Cho Youn-ah
Cast.: Choi Min-sik, Tsering Kipale Gurung, Tenjing Sherpa, Namgya Gurung, Hamo Gurung, Tseptam Gurung, Ham Bahadur Sinjali
Production: Dongnyuk Film, Outside The Box Production
Distribution:
Zootrope Films
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75009 Paris
Tel: 0033-1.53.20.48.60
Fax: 0033-1.53.20.48.69
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 2008
35 mm, Color, 95 min,
OV Korean with French subtitles
Awards in many worldwide film festival
Choi, a South Korean contractor, sets for a long journey which takes him to Jharkot, in the middle of Nepal. Young Nepalese worker Dorgy died in an industrial accident in Korea, and Choi must find his family; he must inform them of the sad news and give them Dorgy’s ashes kept in a funeral urn. Gusty winds and ritual chants make Choi feel more and more lost. A young boy is the only one able to communicate with him…
‘I wanted to accentuate the contrast between Choi’ s dark and introvert inner world, and the sunny open native land of Dorgy who died in Korea. Great actor Choi Min-sik plays the lead character Choi during this journey to escape his country’s heavy social reality and respond to a desire he always felt within. In a way, Dorgy forces Choi to leave and encounter nature as a self confrontation.” Jeon Soo-il.
A reverse journey facing death in search of the meaning of life.
