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EXCAVATOR (2017)
  • Director LEE Ju-hyoung
    Year 2017
    Status Completed
    Genre drama
    Starring UHM Tae-woong
    Running Time 93 min.
    Country of Production Korea
    Festival & Awards 2017 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - Best Director
    2018 Bengaluru International Film Festival - Asian Cinema Competition
    2018 Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival - New Directors
    2018 Fajr International Film Festival - Cup of Divination
    Synopsis 20 years after discharge from the army and now an excavator driver, a former paratrooper who had been mobilized to suppress the May 18th Democratic Uprising in Korea in 1980, happens to find a skull in the ground one day. Driving his excavator, he pays visits to his former superiors one by one and realizes they were all both assailants and victims of the times.
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