1987: When the Day Comes (2017)
December 27, 2017
Drama, History, Thriller
2h 9m
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The truth must be told.
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Jang Joon-hwan
- Park Cheo-won Kim Yun-seok
- Prosecutor Choi Hwan Ha Jung-woo
- Han Byung-yong Yoo Hai-jin
- Yeon-hee Kim Tae-ri
- Detective Jo Han-kyung Park Hee-soon
- Reporter Yoon Sang-sam Lee Hee-jun
- Kim Jung-nam Sul Kyung-gu
- Park Jong-chul Yeo Jin-goo
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Keywords
- students' movement
- protest
- democracy
- military dictatorship
- historical event
- student protest
- communism
- 1980s
- democratization movement
- south korea
- seoul, south korea