The Taebaek Mountains
8.6 /10 1 Votes
100% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama Screenplay Song Neung-han Country South Korea | 7.1/10 Director Im Kwon-taek Music director Kim Soo-chul Duration Language Korean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 17, 1994 (1994-09-17) Writer Jeong-lae Cho (novels), Neung-han Song Initial release September 17, 1994 (South Korea) Cast Ahn Sung-ki (Bumwoo), Kim Kap-soo (Sangku), Kim Myoung-kon (Sangjin), Oh Jung-Hae (Sohwa), Bang Eun-jin (Partisan)Similar movies Directed by Im Kwon-taek, Movies about South Korea, Dramas |
The Taebaek Mountains (Hangul: 태백산맥; RR: Taebaek Sanmaek) is a 1994 South Korean film directed by Im Kwon-taek.
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Plot
The film originates from the great river story Taebaegsanmaek consisting of 10 volumes and is written by Cho Jeongrae. The story tries to describe and reveal a few generations-lasting conflicts between the haves (proprietors) and have-nots (peasants), which develop into right wings and left wings respectively. While revealing why and how the conflicts come about, the story depicts every corner of real life—romantic, shamanic, and Confucian aspects of the contemporaries. It provides a further insight into the politically controversial ideological issue on which the viewpoint is virtually hardened among over 40's in South Korea. This ideological issue survives even in the digital age to have a substantial effect on presidential elections. The author dares to show what the ideological conflict derives from and tries to describe it in detail and with artistic skill of commanding Korean colloquial language supplying its readers the true taste of Korean dialect expressions especially in its southern part Jeolla province.
Reception
Korean film scholar, Kim Kyung-hyun describes the reception of The Taebaek Mountains by South Korean audiences and critics as "lukewarm."
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