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Spring in My Hometown

Directed by Kwangmo Lee

American Propaganda Shorts II: The Red Scare!

US, 16mm, color and b&w
Introduced by Sung-Yoon Lee, Korea Institute
Screening on Film
  • Spring in My Hometown (Areumdawoon sheejul)

    Directed by Kwangmo Lee.
    With In Lee, Sung-kee Ahn, Yoo-Jung Bae.
    South Korea, 1998, 35mm, color, 121 min.
    Korean with English subtitles.

In Spring in My Hometown, director Lee pairs the historical events of the Korean War with contemporaneous events in the private lives of residents of a South Korean village in a series of interrelated episodes.  Though most of the violence occurs off-screen, the negative impact of the war on the village is never in doubt.  For instance, young Sung-Min’s father finds work at the local U.S. Army base, but it is soon revealed that part of this work includes prostituting local women to the soldiers. The aesthetically beautiful wide-screen long shots of the rural scenery belies the tragedy of the events that occur there throughout the film.

  • American Propaganda Shorts II: The Red Scare!

    US, 16mm, color and b&w.

Using recent film acquisitions at the HFA, The Red Scare focuses on propaganda made by the US government to explain the history of communism and its absolute threat to the American way of life in the 50s and 60s. Many of these films were shown in a classroom setting for children across Boston, while other titles were made specifically for U.S. troops.

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