North Korean soldiers behind enemy lines — propaganda or genuine tension? You decide.
The film tells the story of a small group of the Korean People's Army, led by Hakcheol Lee, deputy chief of the reconnaissance division, which went behind enemy lines.
Cinematography
Stark noirish lighting in night reconnaissance sequences.
Production
Remarkable location authenticity given 1953 production constraints.
Director
Dong-min Jeon
Hak Pak
Deputy Head of Reconnaissance Hakcheol Lee
Choi Woon-bong
People's Army Scout Sanghee Shin
Won Jun Yu
Puppet Army Advisor Howard
Se-Yong Kim
People's Army Scout Jeongsul Kim
Jung-bu Moon
Young-soon, a village girl
Byung-ok Son
village girl
Yeong Sim
commander of the U.S. Army
Nam Seung-min
Commander of the Puppet Army Division
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Produced during active hostilities, this represents one of the earliest North Korean feature films and a rare window into DPRK wartime self-mythologizing.
Director Dong-min Jeon would later defect to South Korea, making this film's ideological certainty retrospectively complicated.
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