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In 1636, the Qing dynasty attacks Joseon. King Injo and his retainers, including Choi Myung-kil and Kim Sang-hun, hide in the mountain fortress city of Namhansanseong. They are isolated from the outside. Meanwhile, Choi Myung-kil insists that they enter into negotiations with the Qing dynasty, but Kim Sang-hun proposes that they keep fighting.
1960
2 April 1958, Gyeongsangnam-do, Chinhae, South Korea
26 January 1977, South Korea
4 October 1978, South Korea
12 July 1970, Seoul, South Korea
2 February 1977, South Korea
1966, South Korea
13 February 1970
21 January 1968, Danyang County, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
October 19, 2017
So evocative that by the end viewers may be as cold and hungry as the movie's cast of courtiers.December 07, 2017
... a film that will probably mean most to viewers from Korea, where it was made - though you don't need to know much about the historical background to gather roughly what the story is meant to suggest about the present.October 24, 2017
Hwang competently orchestrates the film's disparate political and strategic developments, but there's little sense of stylistic inspiration or narrative innovation - it's all pretty conventional.October 20, 2017
The recreation of a historic moment in Korea's constantly embattled past becomes a rather enervating epic in the too diaogue-driven hands of director Hwang Dong-hyuk.October 20, 2017
"The Fortress" clocks in at 139 minutes, but feels much, much longer.October 19, 2017
Without giving too much away, there's something for everyone here.