Soldiers from both sides of the Korean divide live among villagers who know nothing of the war.Soldiers from both sides of the Korean divide live among villagers who know nothing of the war.Soldiers from both sides of the Korean divide live among villagers who know nothing of the war.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 10 nominations
- Chief Comrade Lee Su-Hwa
- (as Jae-yeong Jeong)
- Army Medic Mun Sang-sang (South)
- (as Jae-kyeong Seo)
- Seo Taek-ki (North)
- (as Deok-Hwan Ryu)
- Teacher Kim
- (as Duk-hyun Cho)
- Soo
- (as Seung-mok Yoo)
- Special Forces Commander
- (as David Joseph Anselmo)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIt was only supposed to cost around 4 billion won, as there were no big stars, mostly actors from or acquainted with Jang's Suda family through their past work. But filming and post-production CGI took much longer than expected, and the budget skyrocketed to 8 billion won, putting Jang's company in trouble: for a small production company like Film It Suda failing with this film would have been catastrophic.
- Quotes
Teacher Kim: [in English] How are you?
Smith: What?
Teacher Kim: How are you?
Smith: How do you think I am, huh? I mean, how do you think I am? Look at me, huh? I mean, look at me! I'm tied up with sticks here. You know, I feel like shit! Like shit!
Village Chief: [in Korean] Not going well?
Teacher Kim: It's strange. You can see, like it says here, sir.
Village Chief: I can't read that.
Teacher Kim: Yes, sir. Well, if I say
[in English]
Teacher Kim: 'How are you?', he should say
[in English]
Teacher Kim: 'Fine, and you?'. That's the right American answer, so then I can say,
[in English]
Teacher Kim: 'I'm fine'. Only then is this a completed thing. But he's a bit...
Villager: Why isn't he doing as he should? Is he picking a fight?
It has some excellent cinematography. A few scenes are exaggerated but that is for the comic effect. The village and the villagers maybe silly but other characters are still believable which is necessary for the film to maintain its grip on reality.
Many reviewers have complained about the politics of the film. But the movie is not about politics. Just like that village it exists in its own world and is not aware of the reasons of war. It just know instinctively that violence is bad.
- princebansal1982
- Jun 14, 2011
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Làng Dongmakgol
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $32,065,527
- Runtime2 hours 13 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1