Country: Argentina
Year: 2012
Duration: 93'
In 1989, the young Argentine José Luis García went to North Korea to film what was to be the last international festival for young communists. There, he met Lim Su-kyung, the “flower of reunification,” who had snuck over from South Korea to appeal for the country’s reunification. Over twenty years later, the director journeyed to Seoul with an interpreter to interview the woman. Finding her meant more than just retracing her difficult life and her years in prison, it also meant discovering the complexity of her role and the birth of a deep bond.
Biography
film director
José Luis García
José Luis García (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1965) attended a directing workshop organized by professionals of Argentina’s film industry between 1982 and 1984. He then continued his career collaborating with the filmmaker Felix Monti until 1988. Over the years, he has directed a few shorts and worked as director of photography for directors such as Martín Rejtman, Fernando Spiner and Alejandro Agresti, before directing his first feature film in 2005, the documentary Cándido López, los campos de batalla, which received various awards, including the Audience Award at the BAFICI. La chica del sur is his second feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Prohibido Fijar Carteles (cm, 1984), Vatropvite (cm, 1987), House in Motion (cm, 1992), Cándido López, los campos de batalla (doc., 2005), La chica del sur (doc., 2012).
Declaration
film director
“There was one person, the girl from the South, who transformed forever, with a truly subversive and revolutionary gesture, my memory of that summer of ’89. From an age at which political passions can become powerfully mixed with the love that one believes will last forever. To a time, as the noted English historian Eric Hobsbawm reflects, in which not only do we not know where we are heading, but we don’t even know where we should be heading.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia, produttore/director, cinematography, producer
José Luis García
sceneggiatura/screenplay
José Luis García, Jorge Goldenberg
montaggio/film editing Alejandra Almirón, Alejandro Carrillo Penovi, José Luis García musica/music Axel Krygier
suono/sound Martín Grignaschi
interpreti/cast Lim Su-kyung, Alejandro Kim, Won Dong-Yeon, Kim Jung-Eun, Lim Pan-Ho, Woo Sung-Ran, Yoon Won-Il, Park Jong-Kun, Jong-Hyun, Jang Liu, Kim Bo-Hyeop
vendita all’estero/world sales Taskovski Films
montaggio/film editing Alejandra Almirón, Alejandro Carrillo Penovi, José Luis García musica/music Axel Krygier
suono/sound Martín Grignaschi
interpreti/cast Lim Su-kyung, Alejandro Kim, Won Dong-Yeon, Kim Jung-Eun, Lim Pan-Ho, Woo Sung-Ran, Yoon Won-Il, Park Jong-Kun, Jong-Hyun, Jang Liu, Kim Bo-Hyeop
vendita all’estero/world sales Taskovski Films
TFF
prizes
