I Am a Truck
MovieTitle | 나는 트럭이다 |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1953 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Kim Ki-young |
Production country | South Korea |
Production companies | U.S.I.S., Liberty Production (KR) |
Run time | 18 min. |
Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short film I Am a Truck (1953), which was sponsored by UN and made a year after the armistice of the Korean War. This film is a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a soon-to-be powerful auteur and influential filmmaker in the post-war Korean cinema, if not the whole history of Korean cinema.