Birdcage Inn

Local title
Birdcage'i hotell
Original title
Paran daemun
Director
Kim Ki-duk
Country
South Korea
Year
1998
Programme
In Focus: The Firsts of Kim Ki-duk
Genre
psychological drama

"Birdcage Inn" is Kim Ki-duk's third film that was released domestically in October 1998, and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 1999 as an opening film in the Panorama section. A young woman comes to a seaside hotel service as an occasional nighttime customer. Gradually, however, she comes into conflict with the hotel owner’s daughter, a college student who has contempt for the young woman and her profession. What would have to happen for them to change places for one evening?

Director
Kim Ki-duk
Screenwriter
Kim Ki-duk
Cast
Lee Ji-eun, Lee Hye-eun, Ahn Jae-mo
Producer
Kwon Ki-yung
DoP
Seo Jeong-min
Editor
Ko Im-pyo
Composer
Lee Mun-hee
Production
Boogui Cinema
Runtime
Language
Korean
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
Berlin
Director
Kim Ki-duk

Filmograafia Valik/Selected: Seom (2000, Saar PÖFF 2001), Na bbun nam ja (Bad Guy, 2001), Soochwieen bodmyung (2001, Aadress teadmata PÖFF 2002), Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Kevad, suvi, sügis, talv ... ja kevad, 2003), Samaria (Samaaria tüdruk, PÖFF 2004), Bin jip (Tühi maja, PÖFF 2004), Hwal (Vibu, PÖFF 2005), Shi gan (Aeg, PÖFF 2006), Soom (Breath, 2007), Bi-mong (Dream, 2008), Arirang (PÖFF 2011, doc), Amen (2011, doc), Pietà (PÖFF 2012), Moebius (Möbius, PÖFF 2013), Ildaeil 8One on One, 2014), Seu-top (Stop, 2015), Geumul (The Net, 2016), Inkan, gongkan, sikan grigo inkan (Human, Space, Time and Human, 2018)

Screenings

Keldrisaal Haapsalu kultuurikeskus
Screening029302 / Birdcage'i hotell
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Trailer