The Taebaek Mountains

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The Taebaek Mountains
Poster to The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
Directed by	Im Kwon-taek
Produced by	Lee Tae-won
Written by	Cho Jeong-lae Song Neung-han
Starring	Ahn Sung-ki Bang Eun-jin
Music by	Kim Soo-Chul
Cinematography	Jung Il-sung
Editing by	Park Sun-duk
Distributed by	Taehung Pictures
Release date(s)	September 17, 1994
Running time	168 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
IMDb profile
Korean name
Hangul	태백산맥
Hanja	太白山脈

The Taebaek Mountains (태백산맥 - Taebaek sanmaek) (1994) is an award-winning South Korean film directed by Im Kwon-taek.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Reception 3 Awards 3.1 Wins 3.2 Nominations 3.3 Presented 4 Notes 5 Sources

[edit] Synopsis

The film tells the story of a small town at the southern part of Korea in 1949 and 1950, just before the outbreak of the Korean War.

[edit] Reception

Korean film scholar, Kim Kyung-hyun describes the reception of The Taebaek Mountains by South Korean audiences and critics as "lukewarm."^[1]

[edit] Awards

[edit] Wins

• Blue Dragon Awards Best Film (1994)^[2]

[edit] Nominations

• Golden Berlin Bear, Berlin International Film Festival (Im Kwon-taek) (1995)

[edit] Presented

• Telluride Film Festival (1999)

[edit] Notes

[edit] Sources

• Brennan, Sandra. The Taebaek Mountains (English). All Movie Guide. Retrieved on 2007-11-06.
• Kim, Kyung-hyun (2002). "Is This How the War Is Remembered?: Deceptive Sex and the Re-masculinized Nation in The The Taebaek Mountains", in James, David E. & Kim Kyung-hyun: Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, p.p.197-222. ISBN 0-8143-2869-5. 
• Kim, Kyung-hyun (2004). "3. 'Is This How the War is Remembered?': Violent Sex and the Korean War in Silver Stallion, Spring in My Hometown, and The Taebaek Mountains", The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (in English). Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp.93-106. ISBN 0-8223-3267-1. 
• TAEBAEK SANMAEK (English). The Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
• Taebek sanmaek (1994) at the Internet Movie Database

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