96'’ / status : completed
In a small Korean town in 1915, after a school teacher murders his daughter, a father’s thwarted revenge leads him to father a son dedicated to avenging his sister. The son takes an oath to kill the school teacher.
Press
“A beautiful , profoundly unsettling film. A true odyssey , geographically and psychologically . One of the greatest films to emerge from the Kazakh New Wave , and one of the toughest.”
Kent Jones