Salt (1985)

Original title

소금

Directed by

Shin Sang-ok

Genre

tragedy

Country

North Korea

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1930s Manchuria, a mother disapproves of her son joining guerrillas but later sees their cause as just. She is torn between family loyalty and political change.

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What happens

Salt (Korean: 소금, Korean pronunciation: [sʰo̞ɡɯm]) is a 1985 North Korean tragedy film directed by Shin Sang-ok. It is the third of Shin's North Korean films after he and his wife Choi Eun-hee were abducted and brought to the country against their will. Choi stars in Salt as an unnamed mother who disapproves of her son after he runs away with guerrillas, but eventually comes to see them as fighting for a just cause. The film is set in 1930s Kando (Jiandao) where ethnic Koreans are persecuted by the Chinese and Japanese. The film employed a new virtue in North Korean cinema of short and condensed stories instead of multi-part epics. Unusual for a North Korean film, it was favorably reviewed by foreign critics. Choi's performance in particular is praised for realism. She was awarded the Best Actress prize at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival in 1985 for her role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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