Pandemic (film)

Movie
German title	pandemic
Original title	Gamgi ( 감기 )
Country of production	South Korea
original language	Korean
Publishing year	2013
length	121 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Kim Sung-su
script	Lee Yeong-jong , Kim Sung-su
production	Kim Sung-jin , Seo Jong-hae , Jeong Hoon-tak , Im Young-ju
music	Kim Tae-seong
cut	Nam Na-yeong
occupation
Su Ae : Kim In-hae Jang Hyuk : Kang Ji-koo Park Min-ha : Kim Mi-reu Yoo Hae-jin : Bae Kyung-ub Ma Dong-seok : Jeon Gook-hwan Lee Hee-joon : Byung-ki Kim Ki-hyeon : South Korean Prime Minister Cha In-pyo : South Korean President Lee Sang-yeob : Byung-woo Park Hyo-joo : Teacher Jung Park Jung-min : Chul-gyo Boris Stout : Leo Snyder Kim Moon-soo : Dr. Yang Choi Byung-mo : Choi Dong-chi Jang Kyoung-yup : Sang-myung Andrew William Brand : Dr. Bill Beckman Jo Hwi-joon : Chan-woo Do Yong-goo : Chan-woo's grandfather Noh Gi-hong : Head of the Disease Center Wayne W. Clark : American general

Pandemie (original title: Gamgi , in German 'flu'; intl. Title: The Flu ) is a South Korean disaster film from 2013 by director Kim Sung-su . The film is about an outbreak of a deadly disease that plunges metropolitan Seoul into chaos. In the course of the global COVID-19 pandemic , the film was advertised as a virus thriller on August 6, 2020 and was released in German cinemas under the title Pandemic .

action

A man smuggles illegal immigrants into South Korea and suddenly dies of infection from an unknown virus . Other people in the region also get sick from the pathogen and die from it. The number of infected people in the Seongnam district of Bundang is rising rapidly and government troops are trying to cordon off the area and a quarantine station is being set up to prevent the disease from breaking out again. Meanwhile, virus researcher In-hae and rescue worker Ji-koo try to develop a vaccine that will fight the virus by taking a blood sample from the first victim. The government is doing all it can to stop the disease from spreading. Just before the situation begins to escalate, the antibodies to the virus are found and the city recovers.

reception

The film opened in South Korean cinemas on August 14, 2013 and reached over 3.1 million admissions. The reviews were mixed. Beyond Hollywood says: "Kim Sung-su's approach shows a good balance between character drama, conspiracy and tension and that clearly helps to push the dreaded tears and hysteria into the background." Rüdiger Suchsland gave the film a positive review. The film is realistic and reminds of the immediate present. The film combines "excellent entertainment, love, humor and tension" and is popular entertainment cinema: "Funny, exciting, grotesque, overdrawn, garish and precise". Knut Elstermann rated the film 3 out of 5 stars.

Trivia

• The original title of the film can be translated as flu . The film is about a mutated strain of the H5N1 flu virus .
• Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic , the film was released in Taiwan and Germany in 2020 , seven years after it was first released.
• In Mexico, pirate copiers created a new cover for the film called Coronavirus in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic . El inicio de la epidemia ("Coronavirus - The Beginning of the Epidemic"), which received some attention online . The real Mexican title of the film is Virus .
• In the description of the German distributor for the film, Bundang is incorrectly referred to as a coastal city. In fact, Bundang is a district of Seongnam , far from the coast and adjacent to the Gangnam district of Seoul .
• The German title is "Pandemie". However, a pandemic refers to a global outbreak, while in the film the outbreak is limited to one or two cities. So the film is an epidemic . The managing director of the Busch Media Group said that they were inspired by the French title ( Pandémie ).

Web links

• Pandemic in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Pandemic in theKorean Movie Database(English)
• Pandemic on HanCinema
• Pandemic on film releases

Individual evidence

1. ^ Flu (2013). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC , accessed on June 24, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Flu (GAMGI). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved June 24, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Beyond Hollywood film review ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Rüdiger Suchsland : "Pandemie": Fascination Disaster Film. In: SWR2 . August 4, 2020, accessed August 5, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Knut Elstermann : The film "Pandemic" shows Corona as a thriller. In: MDR . August 6, 2020, accessed August 6, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Maggie Lee: Film Review: 'Flu'. In: Variety . September 24, 2013, accessed June 24, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Pierce Conran: 2013 Korean Pandemic Thriller FLU Scores Taiwanese Theatrical Release. KIM Sung-su Hit Back in the Public Eye Amid Global Health Scare. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC , April 14, 2020, accessed on June 24, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Pandemic: Trailer for the cinema release of the South Korean virus thriller. In: Schnittberichte.com . June 23, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Coronavirus - The Film (fact check). In: mimikama. February 28, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Bruno Scelza: La película fue llamada “Virus” para el mercado hispano y no trata del nuevo coronavirus. In: AFP Factual. March 18, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 (Spanish). 
11. ↑ Pandemic. In: Busch Media Group. Retrieved June 24, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Jörg Thomann: "The film meets the zeitgeist". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 30, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 .