Country: France, Belgium
Year: 2012
Duration: 75'
Jung is five years old when a policeman finds him wandering alone in the streets of Seoul: like the other two hundred thousand war orphans in the world, his life begins a second time when he is adopted by a French family. Years later, Jung decides to return for the first time to South Korea to rediscover the sensations of his homeland and to try and find possible clues leading him to his biologic mother; but also to try to finally reconcile his past with his present.
Biography
film director
Jung Henin
Jung (Seoul, South Korea, 1965) was adopted by a Belgian family in 1971; he studied in Rixensart before attending the Saint-Luc Art Institute in Brussels. In 1987, he started working with the magazines “Spirou” and “Tintin;” in 1991 he published the first of his four Yasuda books, which were followed by several other works, often done in collaboration with Jee-Yun Kwaïdan. In 2006 he published the autobiographic graphic novel Couleur de peau: Miel.
FILMOGRAFIA
Jung, Laurent Boileau: Couleur de peau: Miel (anim., 2012).
Laurent Boileau
Laurent Boileau (France, 1969), a head cameraman and film editor, made his debut as a director in 1999. His passion for graphic arts inspired him to make several documentaries on the topic, like Artisans of the Imagination, Spirou, a Renaissance and The Horses of Paper. He also writes on comics and graphic novels for many French websites.
FILMOGRAFIA
Laurent Boileau:
Artisans of the Imagination (tv, doc., 2004), Spirou, a Renaissance (tv, doc., 2004), Franquin Gaston and Company (tv, doc., 2005), The Horses of Paper (tv, doc., 2006), Sokal, the Art of Fine (tv, doc., 2007), Poland Marzi (tv, doc., 2009).
Jung, Laurent Boileau: Couleur de peau:
Miel (anim., 2012).
Declaration
film director
“This film was conceived in compliance with the codes of storytelling in cinema, but the autobiographical dimension of this adventure led us to shake certain habits and find our own path, our own identity.” ( Jung)
“The film reveals the story of an uprooted man seeking to end the sterile struggle of rejection of his origins. Jung’s personal story also refers to the collective history of a people divided, separated by a dividing line since 1953.” (Laurent Boileau)
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors Jung, Laurent Boileau
soggetto/story dall’omonimo graphic novel di/from the graphic novel of the same title by Jung
produzione/production Mosaique Films, Artemis Productions, France 3 Cinéma
vendita all’estero/ world sales Wide & Wide House
soggetto/story dall’omonimo graphic novel di/from the graphic novel of the same title by Jung
produzione/production Mosaique Films, Artemis Productions, France 3 Cinéma
vendita all’estero/ world sales Wide & Wide House
TFF
prizes
