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The Korean Wedding Chest (2009)

ALL 10/01/2009 (de) Documentary 82 Min
  • Release
    10/01/2009
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Die koreanische Hochzeitstruhe
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

Ulrike Ottinger’s provocative mélange of ethnography, stunning tableaux and baroque vignettes was inspired by what she calls the “well-stocked miracle” of Korean wedding chests, assembled according to time-honored customs. This exploration of love and marriage in South Korea looks closely at ancient and present-day rituals, revealing what is old in the new and new in the old. Her inquiry leads us from shamans, temples and priests, to the enchanted maze of 21st-century Seoul, where vendors of medicinal herbs co-exist with high-tech beauty salons for wedding couples and secular marriage palaces. Using film much like a canvas, Ottinger creates a modern fairytale flush with mythological heroes, traditional rites, ancestral symbolism, dreams of eternal love, and a whole lot of Western kitsch. One of her most acclaimed documentaries, it captures the amazing phenomenon of new mega-cities and their contradictory societies caught in a balancing act.

  1. Ulrike Ottinger

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Ulrike Ottinger

    Producer



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The Korean Wedding Chest (2009) 82 Min

ALL 10/01/2009 (de)
Documentary
  • Release 10/01/2009
  • Production
  • Original title Die koreanische Hochzeitstruhe
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Ulrike Ottinger’s provocative mélange of ethnography, stunning tableaux and baroque vignettes was inspired by what she calls the “well-stocked miracle” of Korean wedding chests, assembled according to time-honored customs. This exploration of love and marriage in South Korea looks closely at ancient and present-day rituals, revealing what is old in the new and new in the old. Her inquiry leads us from shamans, temples and priests, to the enchanted maze of 21st-century Seoul, where vendors of medicinal herbs co-exist with high-tech beauty salons for wedding couples and secular marriage palaces. Using film much like a canvas, Ottinger creates a modern fairytale flush with mythological heroes, traditional rites, ancestral symbolism, dreams of eternal love, and a whole lot of Western kitsch. One of her most acclaimed documentaries, it captures the amazing phenomenon of new mega-cities and their contradictory societies caught in a balancing act.

  1. Ulrike Ottinger

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Yang Jin-mo, Bettina Blickwede

    Editor

  4. Ulrike Ottinger

    Producer



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