A portrait of Lee Ki-young, a novelist who led the proletarian literature movement in Korea during the Japanese colonial period. He defected to North Korea after liberation from Japanese colonial rule and played a pivotal role in North Korea literature. Rat Fire, also the title of his novel written in 1933, is a traditional play to make a fire on fields to exterminate harmful insects and rats during the festival celebrating for the first full moon of the lunar year. All foota...
more
A portrait of Lee Ki-young, a novelist who led the proletarian literature movement in Korea during the Japanese colonial period. He defected to North Korea after liberation from Japanese colonial rule and played a pivotal role in North Korea literature. Rat Fire, also the title of his novel written in 1933, is a traditional play to make a fire on fields to exterminate harmful insects and rats during the festival celebrating for the first full moon of the lunar year. All footage except the text is shot in several villages during the festival since 2012.
less