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Hanaan (2012)

Hanaan (2012)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 2012, October 11
Directors: Ruslan Pak
Countries: South Korea, Uzbekistan
Production: Flying Tiger Pictures, Indiestory
Cast: Won Hyun-jun, Ryoo Sung-hoon, Seydulla Moldakhanov, Kim Kkob-bi, Kim Jae-geun, Furkat Faiziyev, Davron Karimov, Stanislav Tyan, Bahodir Musaev, Dmitry Eum, Ilbek Faiziev, Vyacheslav Czyu

Overview:

Stas is a young third generation Koryo-saram, a member of the Korean minority in Central Asia that was deported from the Russian Far East by Stalin. He and his three friends Kasoy, Shin and Said try to escape from the grim life in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, and one day, they also try heroin. Then, however, Kasoy gets killed by a gang. 6 years later, Shin has emigrated to South Korea, Said has become a drug addict and Stas is now a police officer. Said commits suicide by overdosing and Stas, who has has since then also become a drug addict, decides to turn over a new leaf. He follows Shin to South Korea, but can this be Hanaan for him, the Promised Land?

Keywords:

hope for future emigration korean minority koryo-saram