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Piagol (1955)

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Piagol 피아골 (1955)

Director: Gang-cheon LEE (이강천)
Cast: KIM Jin-gyu, HEO Jang-gang, LEE Ye-chun [김진규, 허장강, 이예춘]
Genre: War drama
Year: 1955
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitle(s): English (.srt)
Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes
Rating: G
In glorious Black & white

NOTE: Torrent also includes a 45-minute Korean Film Archive (KOFA) documentary about the film’s director, LEE Gang-cheon.

"The first movie to be banned for violating the Anti-Communist Act, due to its humane portrayal of North Korean partisan soldiers"

External Links
IMDB (7.0/10): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371877/
Korean Film Archive analysis in its “100 Korean Films”
Koreanfilm.org (review in English)
NAVER movies (In Korean)

Plot/Synopsis
One of the few partisan units left in Mt. Jiri after the signing of the Armistice, the unit led by a captain nicknamed "Agari" (meaning "mouth" in Korean) commits all manner of atrocities. Cheol-su (Kim Jin-gyu), who has started to grow disillusioned with the communist ideology, is troubled by the romantic feelings professed by an ideologically devout and cool-headed female comrade named Ae-ran (Lee Ye-chun). One day, another female partisan soldier named So-ju, who had been transferred to another unit, finds her way back to Piagol with a bullet wound in her shoulder. Man-su (Heo Jang-gang) rapes the injured So-ju, who dies under his assault. In order to cover up his crime, he murders his fellow soldiers, frames Dal-su for the rape, and kills him. Once the extermination of guerillas in Mt. Jiri begins, all the partisan soldiers face imminent death. Disgusted by partisan life, Ae-ran and Cheol-su discuss defection, but are discovered in the act by Agari. Cheol-su and Agari get into a fight, and Cheol-su is killed. In the end, Ae-ran kills Agari and descends the mountain alone.

Documentary
The accompanying 45-minute documentary was made by KOFA and describes the artistic vision of Lee Gang-cheon, the making of Piagol, and the political hurdles it faced due to its so-called overly humanized portrait of North Korea guerrillas.

Technical Specs for PIAGOL (see Mediainfo thumbnail below for info on accompanying documentary)
DVD Source: R3 DVD9 Retail
Video Format: AVI - XviD
Video Bitrate: 1584 Kbps
Video Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes
Frame Rate : 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Resolution: 640 x 480
Audio Format: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 224 Kbps