CLASSIC MOVIE NIGHT_Death Song April 16, 2009

CLASSIC MOVIE NIGHT

Death Song

When: April 16 [Thursday] at 6:30 PM

Where: The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

Director: Kim Ho-sun
Length: 121 min
Year: 1991

Yoon Shim-dok, a pioneering singer and independence activist in the 1920s – exemplifies Korean strength in an era of Japanese imperialism, but her forlrn love affair with the scion of a prominent Korean family becomes a fatal vulnerability. Kim Ho-sun directs this passionate and tragic biopic, for which he won the 1992 Grand Bell Award for Best Director.
(Korean with English subtitle)

Join us each month for Classic Movie Night, which focuses on films set in the colonial era. Screenings are followed by a brief lecture and Q & A. Light refreshments will be served.

More information at www.koreasociety.org or RSVP to [email protected]

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