The Attorney (2013)

Original title

변호인

Directed by

Yang Woo-seok

Genre

drama film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h 07m

Rated

G

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 229 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small-town tax lawyer in 1980s South Korea reluctantly takes on the defense of students falsely accused of being communist sympathizers. He faces a powerful authoritarian government in an unfair trial.

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What happens

The Attorney (Korean: 변호인; RR: Byeonhoin) is a 2013 South Korean legal drama film directed and co-written by Yang Woo-suk in his directorial debut. With 11,375,954 tickets sold and a revenue of ₩82.9 billion, The Attorney became the 15th-best-selling Korean film of all time and the second-highest-grossing Korean film of 2013. It was inspired by the real-life "Burim case" of 1981 when, during the authoritarian Chun Doo-hwan regime, 22 students, teachers and office workers who belonged to a book club were arrested without warrants on fabricated charges that they were North Korea sympathizers. Roh Moo-hyun, then a tax lawyer from Busan, formed a legal team with his allies, including Moon Jae-in and Kim Kwang-il, to defend the arrested individuals against the government. After the case, Roh became an influential human rights lawyer throughout the 1980s; he later entered politics and became the 9th president of South Korea. Later, Moon Jae-in also became the 12th president of South Korea. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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