Im Kwon-taek
Director
Festival (1996)
While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an acclaimed South Korean novelist receives news that she has passed away, so he leaves the city and returns to her village to take part in the funeral.
Keywords: imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.family-relationships, imdb.funeral, imdb.return-home, imdb.writer, imdb.hometown, imdb.uncle-niece-relationship + 34 more, imdb.illegitimate-niece, imdb.grandmother-granddaughter-relatiionship, imdb.reading-a-children-s-story, imdb.age-reversal, imdb.ritual, imdb.tradition, imdb.ceremony, imdb.fairy-tale, imdb.death, imdb.reporter, imdb.ensemble-cast, imdb.family-feud, imdb.87-year-old, imdb.87-year-old-woman, imdb.brother-in-law-sister-in-law-relationship, imdb.illness, imdb.senility, imdb.caretaker, imdb.brother-brother-relationship, imdb.money, imdb.gossip, imdb.gambling, imdb.villager, imdb.drink, imdb.drinking, imdb.drunkenness, imdb.memory, imdb.self-imposed-exile, imdb.hypocrisy, imdb.family-saga, imdb.interwoven-relationships, imdb.reincarnation, imdb.buddhist, imdb.death-of-mother
Production Companies: Taehung Pictures
Country: South Korea
Production Country:
South Korea
Languages:
Korean
Recommendations
107 min
June 6, 1996
Released
NR / 13+