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Screening of Lee Man hees 1975 film Road to Sampo this Saturday

Screening of Lee Man hees 1975 film Road to Sampo this Saturday

This Saturday, October 4, at 3pm, the Royal Asiatic Society Cinema Club and Seoul Film Society will have a free screening of the 1975 Lee Man-hee film "Road to Sampo" (?? ?? ?) with English subtitles at Seoul Global Centers Haechi Hall in Myeongdong. As its described here,

Adapted from Hwang Seok-youngs novel, A Road to Sampo is the final and posthumous work of director Lee Man-hee. Young construction worker Young-dal (Baek Il-seop) meets a middle-aged man named Jeong (Kim Jin-kyu), who is on his way back to his hometown after serving time in prison and wandering from one construction site to another. It has been ten years since Jeong has seen his hometown of Sampo. Young-dal and Jeong meet Baek-hwa (Moon Suk), a runaway bar hostess [...] and the group travels to the train station, each reminiscing about his or her past as they go.

This road movie, one of the very few in Koreas earlier film history, was the last film by Lee Man-hee, who died during its post-production. Ill be giving an introduction to the film and short story and looking at the struggles the director went through to make it, and the film will be followed by a discussion of the film for those wishing to take part.

Those wishing to read the short story the film is based on by Hwang Seok-young can download a pdf here (or if its not cooperating, search for "The Road to Sampo" at the Korea Journals site.

Directions to Seoul Global Centers Haechi Hall can be found here, and more information about the film is here, and the screening, here.




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