There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member of the team and they all go drinking together to welcome him.
Direction
Four directors somehow make one cohesive, raw vision.
Acting
The forging team feels like actual coworkers, not performers.
Director
Chang Youn-hyun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Korea's explosive labor movement of the late 1980s—this was dangerous cinema. Four directors shared credit to protect individual careers from government retaliation.
The factory sequences were shot at an actual working metalworks with real laborers as extras. Some 'actors' joined the actual strike that followed filming.
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