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The General′s Mustache

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Country / RegionKorea
Production Year1968
Running Time103min
FormatDCP
ColorColor

Program Note

The film is directed by Lee Seong-gu (The Sun and the Moon, When the Buckwheat Flowers Blossom), with Kim Seungok’s screenplay adapted from a novel by Lee O Young. It is considered a representation of modernism in Korean films of the 60s, and is famous for an animated part of the film at the beginning by director Shin Dong-hun. A man is murdered, and detectives try to figure out why. It is a mystery, but the film is not a thriller about going after the murderer. The question is not who killed him, but who he is. The inner man is revealed through the testimony of people surrounding him. (NAM Dong-chul)

Director

LEE Seong-gu

Born in 1928 in Hamheung, now North Korea, Lee Seong-gu began his film career in 1947, with help from then-famous director Lee Byeong-il, his relative. His debut film. A Young Look(1960), while not successful box office-wise, was a pioneering youth film. His directing style was focused on visual and formal aspects and his The General’s Mustache(1968) is credited as the representative modernist movie in Korea.

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