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A Single Spark
A Single Spark (; lit. "A Beautiful Youth, Jeon Tae-il") is a 1995 South Korean drama film directed by Park Kwang-su.
Plot
The film is set in Seoul, South Korea, and is told from two different perspectives in different timelines. In the 1980s a law school graduate Kim Yeong-su (Moon Sung-keun) has a history of militant and subversive activities and is subsequently in hiding from the authorities. He has secret meetings with his wife Shin Jeong-soon (Kim Sun-jae), who is pregnant with their first child and is also trying to form a trade union at her place of work. To use his time productively he is working on the biography of Jeon Tae-il (Hong Kyoung-in), a garment worker who committed suicide five years ago to draw attention to labour right's abuses. Kim Yeong-su has contacted Jeon Tae-il's mother, and travels around the city having clandestine meetings with the activist's friends and former colleagues, interviewing them for material for his book. This timeline is shown in full colour.
Cast
More details
author | Lee Chang-dong |
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director | Park Kwang-su |
editor | Kim Yang-il |
genre | drama |
keywords | abuse black and white book burning burn collect force garment factory garment industry hide jeon tae-il law school life and death meet nothing road construction shout south korea student protest trade union working conditions young man |
musicBy | Song Hong-seop |
producer | Yoo in-taek |
publisher | Age of Planning |
theme | south korean |