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A Personal Essay on Cinema in Korea

Original title: Gilwe-eui younghwa
Year: 1995
Running time: 51 min.
Country: South Korea
Director: Jang Sun-woo
Screenwriter: Jang Sun-woo
Cast: Documentary
Producer: arte, British Film Institute
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: The Cinema on the Road directed by Jang Sun-Woo is a personal essay on Korean cinema told as a journey through a country torn by war and crushed by military dictatorships and colonial oppression. The journey takes Jang Sun-Woo from Seoul to the de-militarised zone near the North Korean border, interviewing noted filmmakers, local farmers, and cinema-managers along the way, looking for the essence of the much-censored national cinema.

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A Personal Essay on Cinema in Korea

1995

Jang Sun-woo

Napoleón (S)

2013

Enrique García