Samaritan Girl
Samaria, feature film, 2004.
DIRECTED BY: Ki-duk Kim
CAST:
Yeo-reum Han (Jae-yeong),
Ji-min Kwak (Yeo-jin),
Eol Lee (Yeong-ki),
Kwon Hyun-min (prodavač),
Oh Young (glazbenik)
SCRIPT:
Ki-duk Kim
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Sang-jae Sun,
Sang-jae Seon
Synopsis:
Wanting to earn money to travel to Europe, two teenage friends become prostitutes. Jae-yeong meets with clients and Yeo-jin finds them, arranges meetings and keeps watch in case of police. One day she does not do her job properly and Jae-yeong jumps out of a window to avoid arrest. She injures herself severely and on her deathbed requests that her friend meet with a client with whom she has fallen in love. He agrees to meet her, but only on the condition that she sleeps with him.
This film won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
digital, color, 95 min