The Golden Ages of Korean Cinema & the Legend of Shin Film (Younghwa jaekook Shinfilm eui yeoksa)

Shin Sang-ok in "The Golden Ages of Korean Cinema & the Legend of Shin Film" An Aspiration Tower, Film Alchemy production, in colaboration using the Shin Sang-ok Memorial Foundation. (Worldwide sales: Film Alchemy, Seoul.) Produced by Sheen Jeong-kyun, Lee Nam-jin. Executive producer, Choi Eun-hee. Directed by Cho Jae-hong. Script, Lee Nam-jin, Cho.With: Choi Eun-hee, Choi Gyeong-ok, Hwang Gi-seong, Lim Won-sik, Lee Sang-hyun, Kim Cab-eui, Shin Youthful-kyun, Tae Hyun-sil, Kim Jong-won, Jo Jun-hyeong. Narrator: Lee Jang-ho.A biography of Korean director and studio mind Shin Sang-ok, who labored both sides in the peninsula's north-south divide, "The Golden Ages of Korean Cinema & the Legend of Shin Film" is certainly an enthralling if hagiographic slice of cinema history that will satiate Asian-film aficionados and beginners alike. Covering Shin's career within the late 19 forties to his 1986 liberation from Kim Jong-il's employment, the pic comes filled with memories from admiring co-employees and collaborators, and a range of clips from Shin's 60-year oeuvre. Required for Asian-designed fests, docu will even attract other film-aficionado occasions. Read by former Shin protege Lee Jang-ho in bombastic style, the docu starts while using prolific director's first film, "Evil Evening" (1952), whose shoot was interrupted with the Korean War Shin next demonstrated unflagging determination to make a Korean studio system similar to Japan's. Although funded having a body established to recognition Shin's legacy after his 2006 dying, the pic doesn't completely dodge the controversy of the subject's alleged collaboration with South Korea's seventies dictatorship. A recommended follow-up doc will address Shin's publish-North Korean encounters.Camera (color/B&W, HD), Kwak Hyung-shin editor, Kwak. Examined at Busan Film Festival (Wide Position), March. 12, 2011. Running time: 81 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com