A Taxi Driver
Based on true events, an untold story of a taxi driver.
택시운전사 (2017)
Timing:
2:18 (138 min)
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Country
Genre
Action, Drama, History
Budget
$12 820 005
Revenue
$81 927 980
Director
Jang Hoon
Actors
Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-yeol, Park Hyeok-kwon, Choi Gwi-hwa, Cha Soon-bae, Shin Dam-su, Ryu Sung-hyun, Um Tae-goo
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Eom Yu-na
Producer
Seo Kang-ho, Park Un-kyoung, Park Un-kyoung, Kim Do-su, Jung Hyun-ju, You Jeong-hun
Operator
Go Rak-sun
Composer
Artist
Audition
Bo Rosenmüller
Editing
Short description
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
What's left behind the scenes
- From May 18 to 27, 1980, protests (known as the Gwangju Uprising) took place in the city of Gwangju, brutally suppressed by the authorities.
- The film is banned in China because it depicts the suppression of popular unrest by the army, as occurred in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989.
- All events from the taxi driver's life are fictional, as his identity became known only after the film's release.
- Jürgen Hintzpeter (Thomas Kretschmann) was the only journalist to film the massacres during the suppression of the Gwangju Uprising.
- Filming took place from June 5 to October 24, 2016.
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