A Little Pond

A Little Pond (2010)

작은 연못

The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over the amateur singing contest knowing nothing about what is going on around them. At the time, the US Army keeps losing and are pushed back to the village, evacuating all villagers to head south. The villagers took refuge like going on a picnic believing that the US Army is protecting them, they just follow their orders moving south bound.

Date of release
2010-06-23
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Drama, Action, Thriller, War
Director
Lee Sang-woo

Casting

Interesting facts

A Little Pond is a 2009 South Korean feature film written and directed by Yi Sang-woo depicting the massacre of South Korean refugees by American soldiers at No Gun Ri in late July 1950, early in the Korean War. The ensemble cast, who donated their services, includes some of South Korea's leading actors.

Production

After reading the 2003 Korean translation of The Bridge at No Gun Ri, a book by Charles J. Hanley, Sang-Hun Choe and Martha Mendoza, Associated Press journalists who confirmed the massacre, executive producer Lee Eun of Myung Films was determined to tell the story on the screen. Additional background came from Do You Know Our Sorrow?, a 1994 Korean-language book by Chung Eun-yong, whose two children were killed at No Gun Ri.

Noted theater director Yi Sang-woo joined the project, directing his first film. He and producer Lee Woo-jung spent three years collecting material through interviews with No Gun Ri survivors and other sources. Lee Eun formed an autonomous unit, Nogunri Production, in May 2006 to produce the movie, and the team recruited such leading actors as Song Kang-ho (of Thirst and The Host) and Moon So-ri (Oasis and A Good Lawyer's Wife).

A long post-production period ended in March 2009, and the film premiered on Oct. 8, 2009, at the 14th Busan International Film Festival in Busan, South Korea.

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