The Front Line (2011 film)
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| Hangul | |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Gojijeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kojijŏn |
| Directed by | Jang Hoon |
| Produced by | Lee Woo-jeong Kim Hyeon-cheol |
| Written by | Park Sang-yeon |
| Starring |
Shin Ha-kyun Go Soo |
| Music by | Jang Young-gyu Dalparan |
| Cinematography | Kim Woo-hyung |
| Edited by |
Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum |
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Production
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TPS Company
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| Distributed by | Showbox |
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Release date
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Running time
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133 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$20,629,645 |
The Front Line (Hangul: 고지전; RR: Gojijeon; MR: Kojijŏn; also known as Battle of Highlands) is a 2011 South Korean war film directed by Jang Hoon, set during the 1953 ceasefire of the Korean War. This is the third film by director Jang Hoon, after completing Secret Reunion and Rough Cut. It was selected as South Korea's submission to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not make the final shortlist. It also won four Grand Bell Awards, including Best Film.
Early in the Korean War in 1950 as the North is rolling through South Korea, South Korean privates Eun-pyo (Shin Ha-kyun) and Soo-hyeok (Go Soo) are captured during a battle and brought to North Korean captain Jung-yoon. Jung-yoon declaims to the prisoners that the war will be over in a week and that he knows exactly why they are fighting this devastating war, brother against brother. Afterwards he lets the prisoners go free, so that they can help reconstruct the nation after the war.
Three years later, in 1953, despite ceasefire negotiations, the fighting continues around the Aerok Hills on the eastern front, as that would help determine the future dividing line between the North and the South. The hills continue to change hands, so that even the ceasefire negotiators don't always know who controls them.
Amidst the fighting, the South Korean officer commanding Alligator Company, who are fighting for Aerok Hill, is found dead, by a Southern bullet. First Lieutenant Kang Eun-Pyo of the South Korean Army's Counterintelligence Corps (the precursor to South Korea's current Defense Security Command) is sent to investigate the murder and also an apparent mole who had mailed a letter from a Northern soldier to his family in the South.
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