Country: South Korea
Year: 1994
Duration: 100'


Some prisoners escape from a police van that is transferring them into another prison. Among them are two unfortunate prisoners who do not want to get mixed up in the organized criminal gangs who set up the escape. Sung Kun, who had committed a completely accidental murder during a fight, and Kyung Young, a dreamy petty thief find that they have to grudgingly take part in a forced flight towards an uncertain destiny. Hye Jin, a woman they meet by chance, joins them. Forced to by the circumstances, the three learn to like each other. Their naivete and awkwardness push them to seek refuge beyond the border with North Korea in the illusion that they can leave their past mistakes and suffering behind them.

"The militar dictatorship in Korea has at last come to an end with over 30 years of conspiracies and corruption which have created lots of bureaucratic absurdities and spiritual damage in our culture. Unfortunately, those remnants still remain as living ghosts in our daily life and interrupt our attempts at change even though we are in a politically new era. This film has been planned to break a boundary in between with a strong will like the two escaped prisoners." (Yeo Kyun Dong).

Biography

film director

Yeo Kyun Dong

Yeo Kyun Dong was born in Seoul, Korea in 1958. He studied philosophy at Seoul National University. After graduation, he worked for the Yun Woo Theater, a traditional dance group and for the Social Photography Organization. Yeo is one of the most active young filmmakers in Korea who writes scripts, books and translates works of literature. He has adapted several films, Blue in You, Berlin Report. He had an apprenticeship under Park Kwang Soo, one of the best known Korean filmmakers internationally.

FILMOGRAFIA

Sae sang bakuro (Out of the World, 1994).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Yeo Kyun Dong.
Director of photography: Yoo Young Kili.
Art director: Shin Bo Kyung.
Editor: Kim Hyun.
Music: Kim Jong Seo.
Sound: Lee Byung Ha.
Cast and characters: Moon Sung Kun (Sung Kun), Lee Kyung Young (Kyoung Young), Shim Hye Jin (Hye Jin), Yang Hee Kyung, Myong Kue Nam, Kim Ae Ra, Park Yong Pal, Yi Dong Jin.
Director of Production: Kim Hyun Taek.
Producer: Park Sang In.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Young Film Co., Ltd., 139 DonEui Dong, Chong-No, Seoul, Korea, tel. +8227458417.
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