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The DMZ (1965) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language
1965 · 62 mins · Korean
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Directed by
Park Sang-ho
Starring
Jo Mi-ryeong, Yeong-kwan Lee, Won Namkung, Bin-a Ju

The story follows two children left behind in the Korean Demilitarized Zone after the war ends. Amid abandoned tanks, corpses, land mines and unexploded shells, the landscape is a deadly maze. Yet the film shows that the most lethal danger they face comes not from weapons but from the people who inhabit the zone.

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