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A Single Spark(Aleumda-un cheongnyeon Jeon Taeil)

아름다운 청년 전태일 KOREAN

1995 | No - 15 Republic of Korea 96min 1995-11-13 (Release) 235,935(Total Admissions)

Production: Age of Planning
Director: Park Kwang-su
Actor: Moon Sung-keun , Hong Kyung-in , Kim Seon-jai , Lee Joo-sil , Dong Bangwoo See all

Plot

A Single Spark is based on the real life of Jeon Taeil, A manual worker who protests the current labour laws by declari ng his humanity through burning himself to death at the young age of 22. Kim Youngsoo, a law-school graduate is obsessed with the death of Jeon Taeil. In order to better understand Jeon, he re ads Jeon's diary given to him by Jeon's mother. He also interviews people who used to know Jeon during his short life as a manual worker. The more he learns about Jeon, the more he sees himself in the worker who committed suicide. Overlappi ng himself with Jeon becomes his sole reason to live. But in the same way that Jeon was obliged to sacrifice himself for the cause so Kim must also sacrifice himself in some way.

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예고편 00:03:00 아름다운 청년 전태일 [영화]

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Director :: Park Kwang-su
Actor :: Moon Sung-keun 영수 역
Hong Kyung-in 태일 역
Kim Seon-jai 정순 역
Lee Joo-sil 태일 어머니 역
Dong Bangwoo 태일 아버지 역

Staff

Screenplay

: Lee Chang-dong Kim Jeong-hwan Yi Hyo-in Hur Jin-ho Park Kwang-su

Producer

: Yoo In-taek

Planner

: Lee Su-jeong Ryu Jin-ok

Cinematography

: You Young-gil

Light

: Kim Dong-ho