Jiseul

SINGLE KOREA

Title: Jiseul
Genre: War, Drama
Release: 2012
Stars:
Lee Kyeong-joon
Hong Sang-pyo
Moon Seok-beom
Yang Jeong-won

Synopsis:
In November, 1948, the U.S. military stationed in South Korea issues an order that all people living five kilometers outside the South Korean peninsula are labelled as communist rebels and can be executed on sight.
When a small village on Jeju Island (located off Korea's Southern coast) receives the eviction order, its barely literate inhabitants simply can't gauge the order's import. Some 120 villagers flee to a cave and hide for 60 days from armed soldiers. Many of the soldiers are young recruits, shivering in the November snow, who are aware that the people they are shooting are not communists. Meanwhile the villagers, huddled in the cave, grow more and more anxious about the people and livestock they have left behind. They suffer from severe cold and hunger but retain their sanity by making jokes and holding on to the hope that their wait is almost over. Eventually their endurance wanes, and fear begins to test the group's mettle.

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