The Attorney | |
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Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Byeonhoin |
McCune–Reischauer | Pyŏnhoin |
Directed by | Yang Woo-suk |
Written by | Yang Woo-suk Yoon Hyeon-ho |
Produced by | Choi Jeong-ho Choi Jae-won |
Starring | Song Kang-ho Kim Young-ae Oh Dal-su Kwak Do-won Im Si-wan |
Cinematography | Lee Tae-yoon |
Edited by | Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum |
Music by | Jo Yeong-wook |
Production company | Withus Film |
Distributed by | Next Entertainment World |
Release date |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Box office | US$74.1 million[1] |
The Attorney (Korean: 변호인; RR: Byeonhoin) is a 2013 South Korean legal drama film co-written and directed by Yang Woo-suk.[2][3][4][5]
The film in screenwriting and directorial debut for Woo-suk, 11,375,954 tickets sold and a revenue of ₩82.9 billion, became the 15th-best-selling Korean film of all time and the second-highest-grossing Korean film of 2013.[6][7]
The film depicts Burim case when 1981 in South Korea under military regime at that time, that during the authoritarian Chun Doo-hwan regime, 22 students, teachers and office workers who belonged to a book club were arrested without warrants on fabricated charges that they were North Korea sympathizers. Roh Moo-hyun, then a tax lawyer from Busan, formed a legal team with his allies, including Moon Jae-in and Kim Kwang-il, to defend the arrested individuals against the government. After the case, Roh became an influential human rights lawyer throughout the 1980s; he later entered politics and became the 9th president of South Korea. Later, Moon Jae-in also became the 12th president of South Korea.[8][9][10]