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The Fortress (Namhansanseong) [Sub: Eng]
During the Qing Invasion of Korea, the king and the court take refuge in a mountain fortress, where they find themselves stranded in the cold and surrounded by the enemy. The king's dilemma deepens as his people in the fortress start dying from cold and hunger.
13 February 1970
2 February 1977, South Korea
2 April 1958, Gyeongsangnam-do, Chinhae, South Korea
21 January 1968, Danyang County, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
1960
October 20, 2017
The recreation of a historic moment in Korea's constantly embattled past becomes a rather enervating epic in the too diaogue-driven hands of director Hwang Dong-hyuk.
October 20, 2017
"The Fortress" clocks in at 139 minutes, but feels much, much longer.
October 19, 2017
Without giving too much away, there's something for everyone here.
October 19, 2017
So evocative that by the end viewers may be as cold and hungry as the movie's cast of courtiers.
October 24, 2017
Hwang competently orchestrates the film's disparate political and strategic developments, but there's little sense of stylistic inspiration or narrative innovation - it's all pretty conventional.
December 07, 2017
... a film that will probably mean most to viewers from Korea, where it was made - though you don't need to know much about the historical background to gather roughly what the story is meant to suggest about the present.

