Chung Ji-young (b. 1946, Cheongju) is a leading Korean director who began his long career as an assistant to the extraordinarily prolific legend of South Korean film, Kim Soo-yong. He debuted with the erotic suspense film Mist Whispers Like Women (Angaeneun yeojacheoleom sogsag-inda, 1983) but didn’t gain widespread renown until diverging from popular genres and concentrating on more serious topics (e.g. North Korean Partisan in South Korea, 1990). His greatest – unexpected – commercial hit was the socio-critical film Unbowed (Bu-reo-jin Hwa-sal, 2011). Following Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid (1994), National Security is Chung’s second work to be screened at Karlovy Vary. He also showed a profound interest in Korean history (including film history) in the documentary Ari Ari the Korean Cinema, which premiered in 2011 at Asia’s largest film festival in Busan.
48. MFF Karlovy Vary
