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23. My Friend, it’s time...
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My Friend, it’s time for I to speak (Chinguyeo-ijenaega-malhaltega) (1989)
Director : Lee Sang-in
Year of Production : 1989
Genre : Drama/Fiction
Format : 16mm/Color
Running Time : 20 minutes
Crew :
Screenplay : Lee Sang-in, Kwon Oh-hyeon
Production Planning : Kwon Oh-hyeon
Director/Cinemotogrphy/Editor : Lee Sang-in
Music(Composition) : Yoon Min-suk
Coordination : Kang Seong-oh, Kim Myung-joon
Lighting : Cha Joong-ho, Cho Hyeon-il, Oh Chang-kyo
Cast :
Choi Sang-su - Seo Yoon-sun, Lee Min-woo - Cho Byung-kwan, Mother - Min Ga-hyub, Government Agent - Kang Nam-chul, Members of the Club - Lee Mun-sik, Kim Euy-gun, Hong Eung-kyoung, Detective - Park Kwang-sung
Synopsis
The movie deals with a government spying incident that happened at a university club in 1989 and the friendship of two men. Choi Sang-su is introduced to agent Gang Uk through Detective Kim, and in return for not having to go to prison, he becomes a fake student and enters a university to gather information about leftist activity there. He receives education in spying on leftist groups and enters a club at the university called the “Research Group of the Literature of the People.” But the friendship of his school colleagues dissuades Choi Sang-su from continuing in his espionage and he spends more and more time with them, longing for a true democracy.
Notes
It deals with the pro-democracy student movement and the government espionage of universities as well as the resultant strife and fraction therein. (Kang So-won)
It shows the problem of government espionage of the student pro-democracy movement.(Kim Dong-won)
Purpose of Production
It reveals government espionage of universities by telling the tale of a specific incident. The story is told by the government spy, and in consideration for dramatic flow, the story is told in a chronologically compressed fashion. The most difficult part in shooting the film came, when in order to give the movie a sense an urgent realism, we placed our actors at the front of an actual antigovernment protest and one of our supporting actors ended up getting arrested. Fortunately, the actor was released after 5 days for lack of evidence and we were able to resume shooting. This kind of difficult situation gave our actors more immediacy in their performances.
Director Bio : Lee Sang-in (1965- )
Born in 1965. Professor at Yong In University. Directed Mother, Your Son (1991), Behind The Camel (Nakta Dwieseo) (1996) and Rush (Jilju) (1999)
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