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Repatriation

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Original title: Songhwan (Repatriation)
Year: 2003
Running time: 149 min.
Country: South Korea
Director: Kim Dong-won
Screenwriter: Kim Dong-won
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Kim Dong-won
Producer: Co-production South Korea-North Korea;
Genre: Documentary | Korean War. 1950s. Historical Documentaries
Synopsis: Repatriation is a documentary film about a 12 year relationship between the director and North Korean spies in South Korea. This film captures their suffering, their eventual return to North Korea, and the constitution in the politics of division. Of the thousands of spies sent between North and South Korea since their separation at the end of the Korean War in 1953, many of those captured in the South remained long term "unconverted" prisoners. Kim becomes intimately involved with the plight of the spies for 12 years, as they gain eventual release, struggle to survive in a transformed democratic world and commence their fight for repatriation. A highly personal, affecting and perceptive report from the trailing edge of the Cold War.

Awards: 2004: Sundance: Award for libertad of expresión

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Repatriation

2003

Kim Dong-won

7.7

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