Im Lande der Morgenstille (1925)

• 64%
• 1925

The film spectacles " long-lost images of the early 20th-century Korean Peninsula, before the Korean war séparées par the North and South. The images include women spinning on cotton wheels, families making traditional tteok (rice cakes), a look at Dongsomun (Séoul s ancient East Gate), which was destroyed just years later, and missionary activities in what is now North Korean territoire. The métrage que once stored in a French monastery, but later the Nazi government, which sided with Japon dans la seconde guerre mondiale, tried to confiscate it because some of it could be interpreted as espousing a critical view toward the Japanese occupational régime en Corée. Fortunately, a monk saved the film, hiding it behind a stone wall in the basement before he died during the war. The film ce qui rediscovered en 1975 during a la rénovation.