Based on a real-life mass escape, The Battleship Island is certainly the most impressive South Korean film of last year. The film depicts 400 Koreans – men, women and children – escaping from an island prison where the occupying Japanese regime is exploiting them in the 1940s. Ticket sales for this political escape film represented 37% of all ticket sales in South Korea in 2017!
| Section | |
| Premiere |
Swiss Premiere
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| Countries of production | South Korea |
| Realisateur·rice |
Ryoo Seung-wan
South Korea, 1973 |
