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May 18

Movie"The day a nation's conscience died."
Audience Score
69
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NR 1 hr 58 minHistory, Drama
The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. Seeing as the soldiers beat defenceless people, mainly students, to death, the citizens are in for retaliation and form a militia.
StarringKim Sang-kyungAhn Sung-kiLee Yo-won
DirectorKim Ji-hoon

Movie Details

Original Language:Korean
Executive Producers:Lee Soo-nam
Production Companies:CJ Entertainment, KiHweck ShiDae
Movie Tags:
1980shistorical eventdemocratization movementgwangju uprisinggwangju