Film Screening: A Taxi Driver

Subtitle: 
15th Korean Film Festival
Activity Type: 
Film
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Date: 
Friday, March 16, 2018 - 17:30 to 20:30
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
4130 WWPH
Contact Person: 
Seeing-hwan Shin
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Contact Email: 
shs39@pitt.edu
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A Taxi Driver (2017) directed by Jang Hoon. The 1980 Gwangju Massacre, a cataclysmic event in South Korea's march towards democracy, is revisited through the eyes of a German reporter (Jürgen Hinzpeter) and a Korean cabbie (Kim Sa-bok) who helps him get the truth about Gwangju out to the world.

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
Film and Media Studies Program