Arquivo / 49ª mostra

Dong-Sik Kim, a piano teacher, has just moved into a two-story house with his wife and two children. When his pregnant wife becomes exhausted from working at a sewing machine to support the family, the composer hires a housemaid to help with the work around the house. The new housemaid behaves strangely, catching rats with her hands, spying on the composer, seducing him and eventually becoming pregnant with his child.

Widely considered to be one of the best Korean films of all time, "The Housemaid" was digitally restored by the Korean Film Archive (KOFA) with the support of the World Cinema Foundation and the print granted by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna.