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Red Scarf (Ppalgan Mahura)
Republic of Korea, 1964, Sang-ok Shin
DCP, 104min, Color
Based on : Wun-Sa
Han
Cast(Actor/Actress) : Eun-hee Choi, Young-kyun Shin, Moo-ryong Choi, Eun-jin Han, In-Ja Yoon, Koong-won Nam, Hee-kap Kim, Dae-yub Lee, Am Park
Veteran flight leader Major Gwan-jung Na builds a strong
comradeship in fierce battle of life and death with novice pilots, including
First Lieutenant Dae-bong Bae. Maj. Na introduces Ji-seon, the widow of a
deceased fellow pilot, to First Lt. Bae, and they eventually fall in love and
get married. Later, the plan to blow up North Korea’s bridge, which both Maj.
Na and First Lt. Bae were involved in, fails, and First Lt. Bae is abandoned in
enemy territory as his jet explodes. After successfully rescuing First Lt. Bae,
the demolition plan is attempted again. Maj. Na flies his jet towards the
bridge to accomplish his task.
Sang-ok Shin (1926-2006) was a film director and producer
representative of Korea who directed approx. 80 films and produced approx. 250.
In a word, he was “crazy” about films. His life actually corresponded to his
retrospection in his autobiography I Was
a Film (2007): “Since my childhood, I’ve been thinking, making, and living
for films only. My life is nothing without films.”
Red Scarf (1964)
is a war film about comradeship, love and sacrifice among pilots during the
Korean War. It established the biggest box office hit of its time.
Collaborating with the air force, a huge scale of equipment and soldiers were
mobilized in the film. It was produced in color when black-and-white films were
prevalent, and the production cost was more than twice the average amount.
Aerial cinematography was first attempted, and a high speed camera was used to
capture the bridge demolition scene.
Red Scarf won
various awards from many different major film festivals in Korea as well as the
Best Director, Editing, and Actor Awards at the 11th Asia-Pacific
Film Festival. It was the first Korean film distributed all over Japan and was
exported to Southeast Asia including Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Red Scarf is the first result of the
collaborative project of restoring Asian Films done by the Korean Film Archive,
CJ Power Cast, Dongseo University, and the Busan International Film Festival.
Not only were the best
quality of images sorted by digitalizing 35mm original negative, 35mm dupe
negative, and 16mm print, but the film was also restored in its longest
version. Digital restoration was accomplished by digital cleaning, along with
composing the central picture of the 35mm duplicated negative that has the proportion
of 1.78:1 with the left and right side of the 16mm print that has the
proportion of 2.35:1 using VFX technology.
Bong-young Kim
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