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Ulrike Ottinger | As: Narrator |
Storyline
Ulrike Ottinger’s provocative mélange of ethnography, stunning tableaux and baroque vignettes was inspired by what she calls the “well-stocked miracle” of Korean wedding chests, assembled according to time-honored customs. This exploration of love and marriage in South Korea looks closely at ancient and present-day rituals, revealing what is old in the new and new in the old. Her inquiry leads us from shamans, temples and priests, to the enchanted maze of 21st-century Seoul, where vendors of medicinal herbs co-exist with high-tech beauty salons for wedding couples and secular marriage palaces. Using film much like a canvas, Ottinger creates a modern fairytale flush with mythological heroes, traditional rites, ancestral symbolism, dreams of eternal love, and a whole lot of Western kitsch. One of her most acclaimed documentaries, it captures the amazing phenomenon of new mega-cities and their contradictory societies caught in a balancing act.
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Cast
Ulrike Ottinger |
Narrator |
Directed By
Ulrike Ottinger |
Director |
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Writing Credits
Ulrike Ottinger |
Writer |
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Production Crew
Ulrike Ottinger |
Producer |
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Edited By
Yang Jin-mo |
Editor |
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Bettina Blickwede |
Editor |
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Costume and Makeup
Sound
Visual Effects
Camera
Ulrike Ottinger |
Director of Photography |
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Lee Sunyoung |
Director of Photography |
Lighting
Art Department
Other Crew
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