The Taebaek Mountains

Infobox Korean Film
name = The Taebaek Mountains


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caption = Poster to "The Taebaek Mountains" (1994)
director = Im Kwon-taek
producer = Lee Tae-won
writer = Cho Jeong-lae
Song Neung-han
starring = Ahn Sung-ki
Bang Eun-jin
music = Kim Soo-Chul
cinematography = Jung Il-sung
editing = Park Sun-duk
distributor = Taehung Pictures
released = flagicon|South Korea September 17, 1994
runtime = 168 minutes
country = South Korea
language = Korean
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amg_id = 1:134324
imdb_id = 0111348
hangul = 태백산맥
hanja = 太白山脈
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"The Taebaek Mountains" (태백산맥 - Taebaek sanmaek) (1994) is an award-winning South Korean film directed by Im Kwon-taek.

ynopsis

The film tells the story of a small town at the southern part of Korea in 1949 and 1950, just before the outbreak of the Korean War.

Reception

Korean film scholar, Kim Kyung-hyun describes the reception of "The Taebaek Mountains" by South Korean audiences and critics as "lukewarm." [cite book |last=Kim|first=Kyung-hyun|title=The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema|year=2004|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham and London|language=English|isbn=0-8223-3267-1|pages=p.87|chapter=3. 'Is This How the War is Remembered?': Violent Sex and the Korean War in "Silver Stallion", "Spring in My Hometown", and "The Taebaek Mountains"]

Awards

Wins

* Blue Dragon Awards Best Film (1994) [Awards based on cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111348/awards|title=Awards for Taebek sanmaek (1994)|accessdate=2007-11-06|publisher=Internet Movie Database|language=English "and" cite web |url=http://wc04.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:134324~T4|title=The Taebaek Mountains: Awards|accessdate=2007-11-06|publisher=Internet Movie Database|language=English]

Nominations

* Golden Berlin Bear, Berlin International Film Festival (Im Kwon-taek) (1995)

Presented

* Telluride Film Festival (1999)

Notes

ources

* cite web |first=Sandra|last=Brennan|url=http://wc04.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:134324|title=The Taebaek Mountains
accessdate=2007-11-06|publisher=Allmovie|language=English
*cite book|last=Kim|first=Kyung-hyun|editor=James, David E. & Kim Kyung-hyun|year=2002|title=Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema|chapter=Is This How the War Is Remembered?: Deceptive Sex and the Re-masculinized Nation in "The The Taebaek Mountains"|pages=p.p.197-222|publisher=Wayne State University Press|location=Detroit|isbn=0-8143-2869-5
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*imdb title|id=0111348|title=Taebek sanmaek (1994)