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Sung Hyung Cho
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Known For
Freudenhaus · 2001Freudenhaus
2001
MovieComedy
Everyone should treat themselves to a little joy every day - and for the elderly lady, it’s the handsome young community service worker who brings her lunch. But to make sure the pleasure doesn’t end too quickly, she’s come up with something special...
Full Metal Village · 2007Full Metal Village
★ 6.82007
MovieDocumentary
The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, before and during the biggest heavy metal festival in Europe.
Verirrte Eskimos · 2003Verirrte Eskimos
★ 10.02003
MovieDrama
A supposedly deaf-mute peddler, who roams the countryside as a dance vendor and day laborer, meets a single woman who keeps her desire for closeness at a distance with anonymous phone sex. The two emotional Eskimos attract and repel each other, lie to and desire each other, perform egg dances on frosty-thin ground, fight for affection and a goldfish always ready to break out.
My Brothers and Sisters in the North · 2016My Brothers and Sisters in the North
★ 7.72016
MovieDocumentary
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a country with a very strong social cohesion and the unprecedented admiration of the people for their leader, which is absolutely unique and incomprehensible especially from a Western point of view. The native Korean director Sung-Hyung Cho tries to understand this by accompanying several Koreans from different backgrounds in their daily lives. The film shows the country and its people in a way, as it is rarely done in Western media, non-judgmental and respectful towards the people.
Two Voices from KoreaTwo Voices from Korea
MovieDocumentary
The double portrait of two young Korean women: one studies music in North Korea, the other international relations in South Korea. In the 70th year of Korea's division, South Korean documentary filmmaker Sung-Hyung Cho ventured between the fronts and discovered striking similarities in the lives of both women on both sides of Korea.
Home from Home · 2009Home from Home
★ 5.52009
MovieDocumentary
About three women in search of a home return to South Korea after an absence of more than thirty years. In the 1970s, they left everything behind in order to go to Germany as "guest workers." Although assimilated in their new country, they long for the old one. Now they are able to realize their dream of returning with their German husbands to Dogil Maeul, the German village that has been created for people like them. Situated in a picturesque bay, the village is indeed more German than Germany--there is even whole meal bread and Frankfurter sausages. This is the new-old home to which their sixty something husbands Armin, Willi and Ludwig have come in the hope of spending their remaining years. However, there is still something missing for the three women as they discover it is not so easy to pick up where they left off.
11 Freundinnen · 201311 Freundinnen
★ 5.02013
MovieDocumentary
A documentary on the German Women Football National Team and the 2011 FIFA World Championship in Germany.
I Am Art · 2019I Am Art
2019
MovieDramaComedy
In this mockumentary a first-time documantary filmmaker meets the artist of all classes Ischariot Wiesengrund. Despite their obvious differences the two men develop a strange familiarity.
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