Cinema
Hurrah! For Freedom
자유만세
Choe In-gyu · 1946
Synopsis
Seoul, in August 1945. Choi Han-jung, imprisoned for his independence activism after being betrayed by an informer, escapes and hides at a comrade's house. He persuades the resistance fighters to continue the fight against the Japanese military police. When one of them is caught carrying dynamite, he tries to save him, finds himself surrounded and takes refuge at the home of Mihyang, mistress of a Japanese police officer. Wounded in a shootout, he is treated at the hospital by the nurse Hye-ja, who helps him continue his fight.
Context
The film was released on 21 October 1946, produced by Koryo Film from a screenplay by Jeon Chang-geun, who also plays the lead role; it is counted among the first films made after independence, and was listed in 2007 in the register of cultural properties. According to Windows on Worlds, its director breaks here with the collaboration films he had just made. Shin Sang-ok made his debut in it as an assistant set designer. The film runs fifty-three minutes (fifty-one on the Korean Film Archive DVD).
Who it is for
A film of about fifty minutes, a melodrama of resistance, issued on DVD by the Korean film archive.
Prizes and reception
Shown at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes in 1986, in a panorama of Korean cinema, under the title Vive la liberté.
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