Completed - KOREAN - Drama, Action/Adventure - 137 minutes
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
Year of production : 2017 Director(s) : Hoon JANG Cast : Kang-Ho SONG, Thomas KRETSCHMANN, Hae-Jin YOO Producer(s) : Showbox FILMS
May 1980. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) comes across an offer too good to be true. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju and back again before the curfew, he'll be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won - enough to cover several months of unpaid rent. Without stopping to ask the details, he picks up the German reporter Peter (Thomas Kretschmann) and sets off along the highway. Although stopped by police roadblocks at the edge of Gwangju, Man-seob is desperate to earn his taxi fare, and eventually manages to find a way into the city. There they encounter students and ordinary citizens taking part in large-scale demonstrations against the government. Man-seob, alarmed by the danger in the air, pleads with Peter to go quickly back to Seoul. But Peter ignores him, and with the help of a university student Jae-sik (RYU Jun-yeol) and a Gwangju taxi driver named HWANG (YOO Hai-jin), begins shooting with his news camera. As time passes the situation grows more and more serious, and Man-seob keeps thinking of his young daughter at home all alone.
Country(ies) : KOREA (South)
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Asian world film festival 2017Blue Dragon Awards 2017Buil Film Awards 2017Director's Cut Awards 2017Fantasia Film Festival 2017Grand Bell Awards, South Korea 2017Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2017The SACF Artist of the Year Awards 2017The Seoul Awards 2017Women in Film Korea Festival 2017AARP Movies for Grownups Awards 2018Asian Film Awards 2018Asian Film Critics Association Awards 2018Baek Sang Art Awards 2018Chunsa Film Art Awards 2018Faro Island Film Festival 2018Florence Korea Film Fest 2018Hawaii Film Critics Society 2018Palm Springs International Film Festival 2018Portland International Film Festiva 2018