If you loved Anarchist from Colony, try MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
Eine Brücke zwischen einem Film, den du schon gesehen hast, und einem, den kaum jemand kennt. Das teilen sie, und was der zweite macht, was der erste nicht macht.
Was sie teilen
Theyboth carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / History territory. If that's the register that drew you to Anarchist from Colony, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission is
Here's a film that tries to do a lot with dictionaries. Set in the 1940s, an uneducated thief and a patriotic intellectual secretly join forces to create a Korean dictionary during the Japanese occupation. It probably made a lot more sense if you speak Korean.

