The Weight (film)
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The Weight (Korean: 무게; RR: Muge) is a 2012 South Korean film about a hunchback mortician and his transgender stepsister.
The Weight | |
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Hangul | 무게 |
Revised Romanization | Muge |
McCune–Reischauer | Muge |
Directed by | Jeon Kyu-hwan |
Written by | Jeon Kyu-hwan |
Produced by | Kim Woo-taek Choi Min-ae |
Starring | Cho Jae-hyun Park Ji-a |
Cinematography | Kim Nam-gyun |
Edited by | Kim Mi-yeong Park Hae-oh |
Music by | Ju Dae-gwan |
Distributed by | Next Entertainment World |
Release dates |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
It made its world premiere in the Venice Days sidebar of the 69th Venice International Film Festival,[1][2][3] where it won the 2012 Queer Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture theme."[4] It is the first Korean film to have won the prize.[5][6] It also won a Special Award at the 2013 Fantasporto Orient Express Awards.[7] Jeon Kyu-hwan was awarded Best Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival,[8][9][10] and the Silver Peacock award for best director at the International Film Festival of India.[11] Cho Jae-hyun won Best Actor at the 2013 Fantasia Festival.[12][13][14]
Most of director Jeon Kyu-hwan's previous films, including Berlinale-featured Varanasi and Dance Town, have dealt with the underbelly of society. The Weight is his fifth feature-length film.[15]