PRIVATE AREA
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Film submission
Festival TV
El extraño (The Wailing)
de Na Hong-jin
Synopsis
A town awakes under a torrential downpour and with a brutal crime. A police detective must investigate the incident, while rumors point to a bizarrely behaving stranger, suspected of having something to do with black magic. Director Na Hong-jin leaves the essentially urban spaces in his previous films behind to immerse himself in a rural thriller that plunges into the supernatural.
Director
Na Hong-jin
An essential name in thrillers with a social background, he shattered Korean box office records with his first feature film, The Chaser (08), and picked up diverse awards, including one in Sitges where he also presented The Yellow Sea (11).
Technical information
SOUTH KOREA / UNITED STATES, 2016
DirectorNa Hong-jin
ProducersSuh Dong-hyun, Kim Ho-sung
ScreenplayNa Hong-jin
CinematographyHong Kyung-pyo
Special EffectsKim Kwang-soo
CastKwak Do-won, Jun Kunimura
Edition: 2016
Section: Official Fantàstic Competition
Original language:
Korean
