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The Spy Gone North
This, however, is not a snapshot of that much-documented moment when Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in met over the military demarcation line at Panmunjom last month. Bridge of Spies Instead, it is the final scene of The Spy Gone North, a South Korean espionage thriller which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
Director Yoon Jong-bin’s film is based on the life of a real South Korean secret agent who infiltrated the North’s political elite in the 1990s to uncover details of PYoonyang’s X The eXploited nuclear programme. It goes beyond its suspense-driven source material to offer a remarkably timely tale championing rapprochement over confrontation.
While The Spy Gone North revolves mainly around the battle of wits between protagonists from the North and South, it veers away from the usual historical narrative by having the two Beautiful Darkness characters – a South Korean spy played by Hwang Jung-min and a North Korean official played by Lee Sung-min – establishing some kind of rapport as the story unfolds.
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Director: Jong-bin Yoon
Actors: Cho Jin-woong, Hwang Jung-min, Ju Ji-hoon, Ki Joo-bong, Kim Hong-pa, Lee Hyori, Lee Sung-min
Country: South Korea
