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Hope is a sud coréen film of genre Drama directed by Boris Lojkine with Sol Kyung-gu
Hope (2013)
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Add to a movie listHope (Hangul: 소원; RR: So-won), also known as Wish, is a 2013 South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik, starring Sol Kyung-gu, Uhm Ji-won and Lee Re. It won Best Film at the 34th Blue Dragon Film Awards.
The film is based on a true story, the infamous Nayoung Case in 2008, in which an 8-year-old girl called "Na-young" in the Korean press, was raped and beaten by a drunk 57-year-old man in a public toilet. The court sentenced the man to only 12 years in prison, which caused outrage in the country due to the terrible brutality of the crime and the man's history of physical and sexual violence.
Synopsis
On her way to school, a young girl named So-won (which literally means "wish" or "hope" in Korean) gets sexually assaulted by a drunk older male stranger. As a result, she suffers multiple internal injuries and has to undergo a major surgery, but her emotional wounds are equally difficult to heal. Their happy family shattered, her parents Dong-hoon and Mi-hee go through feelings of pain and rage. From the trauma of that day, So-won refuses to see or talk to her father, so Dong-hoon hides beneath the costume of his daughter's favorite cartoon character and becomes a "guardian angel" at her side. Thanks to the love of those around her, So-won's condition gradually improves. At the sight of So-won slowly finding stability and laughter, her family also begins to change and enters a new phase in their lives, trying to find hope in the midst of their sorrow and despair.Actors
Sol Kyung-gu
(Im Dong-hoon, So-won's father)
Uhm Ji-won
(Kim Mi-hee, So-won's mother)
Lee Re
(Im So-won)
Kim Hae-sook
(Song Jung-sook, psychiatrist)
Kim Sang-ho
(Han Gwang-sik, Dong-hoon's best friend)
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