This particular movie sold more than 14 million tickets, thus becoming the second highest-grossing film in the history of Korean cinema. Moreover, it netted 10 awards at the 52nd Grand Bell Awards, including those for Best Movie, Best Director and Best Leading Actors.
The script portrays the most touching episodes in contemporary Korean history through the life of a man named Yoon Deok-soo, explaining the various reasons for his life choices.
In that fashion, the film begins with the Hungnam evacuation of 1950 during the Korean War, and continues with the massive migration of Koreans to Germany in the 1960s in order to find work, and the war in Vietnam in the 70s. It concludes in 1983, when the major broadcast stations in South Korea held TV programs with the purpose of joining family members that had been split during the partition of the Korean peninsula.
However, apart from the historic events, the story also revolves around the romance between Deok-soo and Young-ja, a nurse he meets in Germany, Their relationship goes through a number of obstacles, only for them to conquer them all.
This relationship benefits the most by the individual performances of Hwang Jung-min as Yoon Deok-soo and Yunjin Kim as Young-ja, but also from their evident chemistry.
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