1987
director:
Jang Joon-hwan
playwright:
Kim Kyung-chan
actor:
Kim Yun-seok
/
Ha Jung-woo
/
Yoo Hai-jin
/
Kim Tae-ri
/
Park Hee-soon
…
genre:
History
region:
Korea
language:
Korean
length: 129
release date:
2017-12-27
(Korea)
IMDb: tt6493286
1987
overview
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.