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유현목 Yu, Hyun-mok│Korea│1979│114min│Color│35mm

한국전쟁이 발발하자 동만이네 집에 외가 식구들이 피난 와서 함께 산다. 동만의 친삼촌은 빨치산이고, 외삼촌은 국군으로 공비 소탕에 나섰다가 전사한다. 이 일로 친할머니와 외할머니 사이는 살벌해진다. 읍내를 습격한 빨치산들이 모두 사살당하자, 동만의 아버지는 삼촌이 죽었을 거라 여긴다. 하지만 친할머니는 이를 믿으려 하지 않고 점쟁이를 찾아가, 아들이 생존해 있고 곧 귀가한다는 점괘를 받아온다. 월남한 실향민이며 반공영화를 여러 편 만들었던 유현목 감독의 후기 대표작으로, 윤흥길의 중편소설을 영화로 옮겼다. 무장 게릴라 투쟁과 토벌, 상호 보복으로 인한 민간인 학살 등 극심한 이념 갈등으로 얼룩진 분단의 기억, 야만의 시간을 샤머니즘으로 위무하며 진정한 화해를 위해 고투하는 작품이다.

During the Korean War in the early 1950s, a mother's family comes and stays at Dong-man's house. His uncle on his father's side is a North Korean partisan and his uncle on his mother's side dies while fighting as a South Korean soldier. This is why his grandmothers don't get along. When all of the North Korean partisans who attacked downtown were killed, Dong-man’s father thinks that Dong-man’s uncle is dead. However, his grandmother does not believe it and visits a fortune-teller, who says he is still alive and will come back home soon. Director Yu Hyun-mok’s hometown was in North Korea and he made many anti-communist films. Based on Yun Heung-gil’s medium-length story, this film is Yu’s most well-known work produced late in his career. The film deals with shamanism the barbarous time of Korean history – struggles and suppression of armed guerrillas, massacres of civilians due to mutual revenges, and the division of the Korean peninsula along with extreme ideological conflicts—and pursues true reconciliation between people.