The Berlin File
New York Asian Film Festival 2013
June 28 - July 11, 2013
Star Ryoo Seung-Beom in person for Q&A!
Spies from North and South Korea square off in a gritty, high speed, post-Bourne thriller.
Star Ryoo Seung-Beom in person for Q&A!
Korea’s action auteur, Ryoo Seung-Wan, injects kinetic kicks into the old school cold war spy story with The Berlin File, a slam-bang action throw down that exchanges American/Soviet tensions for North Korean/South Korean geopolitical gamesmanship to deliver an espionage flick in the vein of John Le Carré, only with rather more dead bodies, broken arms, and sniper showdowns. The second-highest-grossing movie of the year in Korea, this box-office blockbuster is like a Korean installment in the Bourne franchise.
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