She married poverty in silk. The Korean New Wave's most devastating 81 minutes.
Acting
Yoon Jeong-hee's volcanic stillness.
Cinematography
Contrast between silk and mud.
Direction
Kim Seung-ok's unflinching social gaze.
Director
Kim Seung-ok
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Kim Dong-in's 1925 short story, a cornerstone of Korean proletarian literature that exposed colonial-era rural collapse.
Yoon Jeong-hee became Korea's most acclaimed actress; this early role already showed the controlled intensity that would define her 2010 comeback in Poetry.
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