Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die

Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die

2024/01/10 • Released • Korean

Documentary
History
8.2
2h 6m

A man sentenced to death stands with his people before history

Overview

Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decided to be a politician to make his country where people's politic and democracy are rooted. The price of being leave from a guaranteed future and take the first step on a bumby road was kidnapping, death threats, imprisonment, and a death sentence that shook him to the core, but even in his final moments, when he was sentenced to death, Kim never wavered. "Democracy will be recovered. I believe in it." The life of President Kim Dae-jung, a death row inmate who survived from the throes of death, four parliamentary elections, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is etched into the modern history of South Korea.

Director : Min Hwan-ki

Casts
Kim Dae-jung

Kim Dae-jung

Self (archive footage)

Jang Hyun-sung

Jang Hyun-sung

Narrator / Kim Dae-jung (voice)

Jeon So-hyun

Jeon So-hyun

Lee Hee-ho (voice)

Kim Do-young

Kim Do-young

Reenactor

Kim Jae-rok

Kim Jae-rok

Reenactor

Seo Suk-kyu

Seo Suk-kyu

Reenactor

Kim Nam-hee

Kim Nam-hee

Reenactor

Choi Nak-yong

Reenactor

Kang Won-yong

Self (archive footage)

Kwon No-gab

Self

Kim Sang-hyun

Self (archive footage)

Kim Sung-jae

Self

Kim Ok-du

Self

Namgung Jin

Self

Moon Dong-hwan

Self (archive footage)

Ye Chun-ho

Self (archive footage)

Lee Geun-pal

Self (archive footage)

Lee Moon-young

Self (archive footage)

Lee Hyeop

Self

Lee Hee-ho

Self (archive footage)

Jung Dong-nyeon

Self (archive footage)

Cha Eun-gyeong

Self (archive footage)

Han Hwa-gab

Self

Bruce Cumings

Self

David McCann

Self

Jerome A. Cohen

Self

Park Sang-hoon

Self

Seong Han-yong

Self

Lee Jong-chan

Self

Han Hong-gu

Self

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