Screenplay: Jeong Ji-young, Kong Su-young, Chou Young-cheol, Shim Seung-bo
based upon Ahn Jeong-hyo's novel
Cinematographer: Yoo Young-kil
Editing: Kim Hyeon
Music: Shin Byeong-ha
Casting: Anh Seong-ki, Lee Kyeong-young, Shim Hye-jin, Han Ji-il, Kim Se-jun
Production: Kook Jong-nam
Year: 1997
35 mm, Color, 124 min, OV Korean with French subtitles
Unreleased
With kind support of Korean Film Archive and Korean Cultural Center in Paris
Wallowing in inexplicable lethargy since his return from the Vietnam War, novelist Han Ki-ju is separated from his wife and living a bleak life. One day, he gets an unexpected phone call from Byeon Jin-su, a fellow soldier who fought alongside him in the war and reminds him of the past. At first, the unit Han and Byeon enjoyed several uneventful months with no Vietcong in sight, before coming into increasing contact with the atrocities of war. After mistaking a civilian for a Vietcong guerilla and killing him, Byeon's mental state begins to grow unstable, while Han's unit takes part in one final mission.
Korean cinema's first reconsideration of the Vietnam War, based on Ahn Jeong-hyo's novel, which sold over a million copies worldwide.
