Crocodile

Local title
Krokodill
Original title
Ageo
Director
Kim Ki-duk
Country
South Korea
Year
1996
Programme
In Focus: The Firsts of Kim Ki-duk
Genre
psychological drama

Kim Ki-duk's first full-length feature film "Crocodile" is a story where Ki-duk attempts to reverse the metaphor of Korea's new capitalist prosperity represented through the Han River by revealing an 'abnormal' world behind all the positive development and order.The film follows a man nicknamed Crocodile, a grumpy outcast who survives under a bridge with a boy and his grandfather. Each of them obtains money and food in his own way: Crocodile is a great diver, so he collects the purses of the suicides that throw themselves from the bridge into the river; the boy sells chewing gum and the grandfather has a natural talent for mechanics. Their lives will change on the day when Crocodile saves the life of a young woman attempting suicide, whom he rapes shortly after.

Director
Kim Ki-duk
Screenwriter
Kim Ki-duk, Seo Jeong-min
Cast
Lee Ji-eun, Lee Hye-eun, Ahn Jae-mo
Producer
Seung-jae Lee
DoP
Seo Jeong-min
Editor
Ko Im-pyo
Composer
Lee Moon-hui
Production
Boogui Cinema
Runtime
Language
Korean
Subtitles
English
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
Screening019301 / Krokodill
SubtitlesEnglish
Intro byArtur Veeber
Screening duration
Keldrisaal Haapsalu kultuurikeskus
Screening029301 / Krokodill
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Trailer