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Screening: Shin Sang-ok’s To The Last Day CANCELLED

This screening is now cancelled as the KCC has closed, in common with many cultural venues, as a result of the health situation.

The second screening in the KCC’s On the Front Line season:

To The Last Day (이 생명 다하도록)

Dir Shing Sang-ok (1960, 109 mins)
Cast: Choi Eun-hee, Kim Jin-kyu, Nam Koong Won, Shin Seong-il, Kim Hye-jeong
Thursday 2 April 2020, 7pm @ KCCUK

Shin Sang-ok: To the Last Day

Shin Sang-ok’s masterful portrayal of a family coping with the realities of war won a special jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival 1962
About this Event

Captain Kim is grievously wounded in the first days of the war. When the northern troops continue their advance, his wife and small daughters flee south to Taegu, dragging him along in a sledge. His wife struggles to keep herself and their surviving daughter alive. Working as a market trader, she meets a kind young man — who happens to be tall, dark and handsome.

This is the most difficult film Shin Sang-ok tackled in his long and varied career. Questions of wounded veterans – in this case, one who will certainly father no more children — the fate of refugees, and the hardships of war widows are presented in melodramatic fashion. That doesn’t really seem to blunt the realism and shock of what the characters endure. The film was awarded a special jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1962.

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