May 18
The day a nation's conscience died.
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7/25/2007Runtime
118 minsOverview
The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. Seeing as the soldiers beat defenceless people, mainly students, to death, the citizens are in for retaliation and form a militia.
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A visceral account of ordinary people forced into extraordinary violence when a military regime turns on its own citizens. The film watches a city's transformation from peace to chaos with unflinching intensity, documenting how state brutality radicalizes the powerless.
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