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| Directed by | Shin Sang-ok |
| Based on | Salt by Kang Kyeong-ae |
| Starring | Choi Eun-hee |
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Running time | 96 minutes[1] |
| Country | North Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Salt | |
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 소금 |
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| Revised Romanization | Sogeum |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sogŭm |
| IPA | /sʰo̞ɡɯm/ |
Salt (Korean: 소금,[2] Korean pronunciation: [sʰo̞ɡɯm]) is a 1985 North Korean tragedy film directed by Shin Sang-ok. It is the third of Shin's North Korean films after he and his wife Choi Eun-hee were abducted and brought to the country against their will. Choi stars in Salt as an unnamed mother who disapproves of her son after he runs away with guerrillas, but eventually comes to see them as fighting for a just cause. The film is set in 1930s Kando (Jiandao) where ethnic Koreans are persecuted by the Chinese and Japanese.
The film employed a new virtue in North Korean cinema of short and condensed stories instead of multi-part epics. Unusual for a North Korean film, it was favorably reviewed by foreign critics. Choi's performance in particular is praised for realism. She was awarded the Best Actress prize at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival in 1985 for her role.
- ^ 영화 [소금] 상세정보. Cine21 (in Korean). 씨네21. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ Schönherr 2012, p. 203.