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Korean Director's Cut

The March of Fools

Ha Gil Jong

Korea1975 117min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Philosophy-major Byung-tae at Y University meets Young-ja from H University who is about his age at a group blind date. As the young generation in the 1970s who grew up with Western cultural influence that had been quickly imported and disseminated, they struggle in the confinements that surround them: college, family and their pre-destined path to job. Not taken up by the distress of the reality, they evolve with a sense of humor and an ability to laugh at themselves. Without making promise of forever love, Byung-tae and Young-ja are still able to meet and talk to each other and that may be enough.

Diretor

Ha Gil Jong

Borin in 1941. Ha Kil Jong directed The Pollen of Flower (1972), Fidelity (1973), The March of Fools (1975), I Am Looking for A Wife (1976) and The Home of Stars (Sequel) (1978), among ohters. Of these, he wrote hte screen play for The Pollen of Flower, Fidenlity and A Woman Who Told in Her Death, and he even adapted A Woman Who Told in Her Death