Kim Ki-duk

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Kim Ki-duk (2012)
Kim Ki-duk (2012)

Korean spelling
Hangeul 김기덕
Hanja 金基德
Revised
Romanization 		Gim Gi-deok
McCune-
Reischauer 		Kim Kitŏk

Kim Ki-duk ( Korean 김기덕 ; born December 20, 1960 in Bonghwa , South Korea ; † December 11, 2020 in Riga , Latvia ) was a South Korean film director , screenwriter and film producer . From the mid-1990s to 2020, he directed more than a dozen feature films, most of them dramas, for which he received international attention and recognition. For his feature film Pieta (2012) he was the first Korean filmmaker the Golden Lion of theVenice Film Festival .

Life

Kim was abused by his father in his youth. When he was nine, his family moved to Seoul . He had to drop out of school early. After doing odd jobs from the age of 17 and five years of military service in the Navy from 20, he worked at a seminary for the visually impaired. During this time he resumed a childhood hobby, painting, decided to become a painter in 1990 and studied art in Paris. He started writing in 1992 and won a scriptwriting grant.

Since 1996 Kim has made 14 films as a director, kept in a largely pessimistic-laconic tone, full of archaic outbursts of violence by his often communicatively disturbed protagonists. In South Korea, he has had a misogynistic image , especially since Bad Guy ; he thought this was a misunderstanding.

Several of his works were shown at the Venice International Film Festival , such as Seom - Die Insel , which won an award at the Sundance Film Festival and is considered his breakthrough, and Address Unknown . In February 2004 Kim Ki-duks film Samaria was awarded a Silver Bear at the Berlinale , in the same year Bin-Jip - Empty Houses was also awarded at the Venice Film Festival and at the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid . In 2007 he competed at the 60th Cannes Film Festival with his film Breathrepresented. The Museum of Modern Art dedicated a retrospective to him in 2008. His film Dream celebrated its German premiere at the Asia Filmfest in November 2008 . This was followed in 2011 with Arirang, a documentary filmed in complete solitude with which Kim Ki-duk artistically dealt with a severe depression. The film received the main prize of the subsidiary section Un Certain Regard at the 64th Cannes Film Festival . The film, which celebrated its German premiere on July 2nd at the Munich Film Festival , was originally not supposed to be released at all.

In 2012, Kim received his fourth invitation to the competition at the 69th Venice Film Festival for his film Pieta and the main prize of the festival with the Golden Lion . The film focuses on a young and brutal Seoul debt collector (played by Lee Jung-jin ) who encounters an elderly woman ( Cho Min-soo ) who claims to be his mother. Pieta , named after the portrayal of Mary with the body of Jesus Christ, was made on Cheonggyecheonshot, which was once a symbol of the industrial boom in South Korea. Kim Ki-duk also caused controversy in 2013. His film Moebius received only the highest age rating in South Korea . It will not be shown outside of film festivals in his home country. Moebius addresses the incest of father and son.

In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Kim Ki-duk died in December 2020, a few days before his 60th birthday, in a hospital in Riga, Latvia, as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Filmography

Scripts

  • 1995: Crossing the street at Rot (unfilmed)
  • 2008: Beautiful (Arumdabda)
  • 2008: Rough Cut
  • 2013: Rough Play
  • 2013: Red Family ( 붉은 가족 Bulgeun Gajok )

Awards (selection)

Quotes

  • "I see something that I don't understand and make a film about it in order to understand it." (WDR)
  • "My father is a Korean War Veteran," says Kim. “I was raised very militarily. Beatings were the order of the day. I don't feel the pain anymore. "
  • “Korea was first occupied by the Japanese. Then came the Korean War and the American occupation. Of course, these military powers leave their mark. But they remain abstract, you can't really grasp the oppression you have suffered and turn the aggression against yourself. Korea is a broken nation. "
  • “There's nothing provocative about the violence in my films,” says Kim Ki-Duk. “I'm talking about a kind of magic. About the relationship between two people, about the magic of love or affection, which finds its adequate means of expression in violence alone. "

literature

Web links

Commons : Kim Ki-duk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kim Ki-Duk. The Museum of Modern Art, accessed April 29, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Cannes Film Festival: The sublime machine. Frankfurter Rundschau, May 16, 2011, accessed on December 1, 2015 .
  3. ^ Les Prix Un Certain Regard 2011. festival-cannes.com, May 21, 2011, accessed May 21, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Soul striptease by a master director. zeitjung.de, July 4, 2011, archived from the original on December 31, 2013 ; Retrieved February 28, 2012 .
  5. ^ Film profile ( memento from September 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at labiennale.org (English; accessed on September 8, 2012).
  6. ↑ Peter Zander: One has to be the favorite . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 6, 2012, No. 244, p. 21.
  7. ↑ Controversy about "Moebius": incest drama by Kim Ki-duk is shown in Venice, but not in Korean cinemas . filmstarts.de from June 7, 2013.
  8. ↑ Class of 2017. Accessed June 30, 2017.
  9. ↑ Shin Ji-hye: Movie director Kim Ki-duk dies of coronavirus. In: The Korea Herald . December 11, 2020, accessed December 11, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b c Anke Leweke: Portrait: Grausame Seelen . In: Die Zeit , March 18, 2004.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Ki-duk is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Ki-duk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 김기덕 (Hangeul); 金基德 (Hanja)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean director
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonghwa , South Korea
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2020
Place of death Riga , Latvia