Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission (2019)

Original title

말모이

Directed by

Eom Yu-na

Genre

drama film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1940s, an illiterate man and a scholar team up to secretly compile a dictionary of the Korean language. They work together to preserve their native tongue before it is lost.

heartfeltinspiringsentimentalcomedicpoignantearnesthistoric

What happens

Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission (Korean: 말모이) is a 2019 South Korean historical comedy-drama film written and directed by Eom Yu-na. It was released on January 9, 2019. The title refers to an old Korean dialect word which roughly translates to "collecting vocabularies." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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