The Crucible (2011 film)
| The Crucible Silenced |
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Promotional poster for The Crucible
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| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Dogani |
| McCune–Reischauer | Togani |
| Directed by | Hwang Dong-hyuk |
| Produced by | Uhm Yong-hun Bae Jeong-min Na Byung-joon |
| Written by | Hwang Dong-hyuk |
| Based on |
The Crucible by Gong Ji-young |
| Starring |
Gong Yoo Jung Yu-mi |
| Music by | Mowg |
| Cinematography | Kim Ji-yong |
| Edited by | Hahm Sung-won |
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Production
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Samgeori Pictures
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| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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Release date
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Running time
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125 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language |
Korean Korean Sign Language |
| Box office | US$30.7 million |
The Crucible (Hangul: 도가니; RR: Dogani; MR: Togani; also known as Silenced) is a 2011 South Korean drama film based on the novel of the same name by Gong Ji-young, starring Gong Yoo and Jung Yu-mi. It is based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Depicting both the crimes and the court proceedings that let the teachers off with minimal punishment, the film sparked public outrage upon its September 2011 release, which eventually resulted in a reopening of the investigations into the incidents. With over 4 million people in Korea having watched the film, the demand for legislative reform eventually reached its way to the National Assembly of South Korea, where a revised bill, dubbed the Dogani Bill, was passed in late October 2011 to abolish the statute of limitations for sex crimes against minors and the disabled.
Kang In-ho (Gong Yoo) is the newly appointed art teacher at Benevolence Academy, a school for hearing-impaired children in the fictional city of Mujin, North Jeolla Province. He has a dark past - his wife committed suicide a year ago, and his sick daughter is under the care of his mother. He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and distant, trying to avoid running into him as much as possible. In-ho does not give up, however, trying to show the kids that he cares. When the children finally open up, In-ho faces the shocking and ugly truth about the school and what the students have been enduring in secret: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children’s rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yoo-jin (Jung Yu-mi). But he and Yoo-jin soon realize the school’s principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth. In addition to using "privileges of former post" (Jeon-gwan ye-u) the accused do not hesitate to lie and bribe their way to get very light sentences.
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