With a Girl of Black Soil

Directed by Jeon Soo-il (전수일)

Written by • Jeon Soo-il (전수일) • Jeong Soon-yeong (정순영)

97min | Release date in South Korea: 2007/11/15

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Synopsis

In the village of Kanwon where a few mines remain, a little girl(age 9) Young-lim lives with her brother(age 11) and her father(age 45) who lost his job at the mine because of black lung disease. Her father tries to search for another job, but it is very difficult for him. He is disappointed and he won’t stop drinking. He wants to enter the hospital. For enter ing the hospital, he has to have another disease beside black lung disease. Young-lim thinks that her father can enter the hospital if he will drink a small but of rat poison. She tries to put in a little rat poison in her father's soup ....


International Film Festivals

2007 Venice International Film Festival , Horizons

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