UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16342980
Format:
1 BD (109 Minuten + Bonus) : s/w
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DTS-HD MA mono
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1 Booklet
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4:3 anamorphic widescreen
Series Statement:
Korean Film Archive collection 006
Content:
"Released in 1961, Aimless Bullet examines the social situation for the everyman in South Korea following the Korean War, when mass unemployment and overcrowding were just two of the obvious signs of a country in turmoil. With Aimless Bullet director Yoo Hyun-mok, previously largely acknowledged for his technically superior melodramas, turned his hand to a more serious and intellectual project and in doing so established a style of filmmaking that he would continue to explore for the majority of the rest of his directing career. Adapting a controversial 1955 novella by Yi Beomseon (so controversial that the author lost his teaching job on its publication), Yoo̷s version of the material captures an intensity and frustrated energy that feels as if it may have been shot during a quick and intense period, but was in fact shot over the course of a year - whenever Yoo could get his hands on expensive surplus film stock. When the film was originally released - during a period of liberalization following the 1960 April Revolution - it was praised for its realistic depiction of modern Korea, but following a military coup in 1961 and the resulting change in government, the film was then banned on the grounds of being overly pessimistic and the copies screening in theatres were removed." ( Martin Cleary: New Korean Cinema)
Content:
"At the time it was common to make only two copies of a films and these were toured around different theatres. As the Korean copies were lost it's a stroke of luck that a juror for the San Francisco Film Festival had taken a print of "Aimless Bullet" back to the US to screen at the festival in 1963 - this is the sole known copy in existence today, albeit in poor condition and with burnt-in English subtitles." (Martin Cleary: New Korean Cinema)
Note:
Ländercode: A, B, C
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Orig.: Republik Korea, 1961
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Untertitel: englisch, japanisch, koreanisch
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Das Beiheft ist unter derselben Signatur getrennt ausleihbar
Language:
Korean
Keywords:
Film
