With a Girl of Black Soil
OT: Geomen Tangyi Sonyeo Oi
Soo-il Jeon // Republic of Korea (South Korea), 2007
Fiction Feature // FF2008
Story
In the mining town of Kanwon, single father Hye-geon loses his job due to pneumoconiosis. Also, the loss of the family home is immanent due to a restructuring of the village. As Hye-geon turns to drink, his nine-year-old daughter Yeong-lim looks after her mentally disabled brother and tries to get medical aid for her father. But a diagnosis of pneumoconiosis does not suffice for hospital admittance. Then Yeong-lim remembers the rat poison… Set in the bleak beauty of winterly 198.
Director
Info
Geomen Tangyi Sonyeo Oi
Fiction Feature
Korean
Agenda 08//FF2008
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
2007
89 min
OV
Soo-il Jeon
Jung Soon-Yeoung, Jeon Soo-il
Yu Yun-mi, Jo Yung-jin, Park Hyun-woo
Jo In-sook, Franck-Nicolas Chelle, Clément Duboin
Kim Sung-tai
Suh Yong-duk
Gae Soo-jung
Lee Young-hun
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