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HEAVEN: TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESS (2021)
  • Director IM Sang-soo
    Year 2021
    Status Completed
    Genre drama, comedy
    Starring CHOI Min-sik, PARK Hae-il
    Running Time 100 min.
    Country of Production South Korea
    Festival & Awards 2020 Cannes Film Festival – Official Selection
    2021 Busan International Film Festival – Opening Film
    2021 Hawaii International Film Festival
    2021 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival - Cineaste Delights
    2021 London Korean Film Festival - Closing film

    Synopsis Due to his incurable disease, Nam-sik desperately needs the medicine that he can’t possibly afford. Just to stay alive, he chooses to move around from hospital to hospital stealing medicine after work. Meanwhile, 203, the man in prison for embezzlement who is suffering from severe headache and seizures visits the hospital for a medical checkup. After being told that he has less than 2 weeks to live, 203 escapes and Nam-sik tag along in his unexpected journey.
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