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Moranbong
(Moranbong, une aventure coréenne)

Screening on Film
Directed by Claude-Jean Bonnardot.
With Claude-Jean Bonnardot, Si Mieun, Om Kil-son.
France, 1960, 35mm, black & white, 84 min.
Korean with English subtitles.
Print source: CNC

Banned in France at the time of its release, the film was born of a historic trip to North Korea in 1958, one in which Chris Marker, Claude Lanzmann and Armand Gatti also participated. Apparently honoring a request by Mao Zedong, Gatti penned the script of this idyll inspired by a traditional Korean Opera—the pansori The Faithful Chunhyang—transposed in the context of the Korean War and clearly positioned against the destruction perpetrated by the forces of the United States and the UN. Difficult shooting conditions contributed to the invention of an original and quite modern cinematographic language, accentuated by documentary elements and significant ellipses.

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    French with English subtitles.
    DCP source: Films de Jeudi

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