When Ki-woo is recommended by a friend for a well-paying job as a tutor, his family, unemployed and living miserably in a basement, begins to see some hope in the bleak horizon in which they find themselves. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo goes to the Parks` house for an interview. This first meeting between the two families starts an unexpected and uncontrollable sequence of problems.
Black and white version of the Golden Palm winner at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards for best film, best foreign film, original screenplay and direction.
Gisaengchung
2019
16 years
131 min.
Fiction
South Korea
South Korea, awarded films, international festivals, social portrait, social pressure
P&B
Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won
Hong Kyung-pyo
Yang Jinmo
Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam
Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae, Moon Yang-kwon
Barunson E&A
Jung Jae-il
Pandora Filmes, Alpha Filmes
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