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A Taxi Driver(Movie, 2017)

Original title: "택시운전사" (Korean/KO)
2h 18min | Genres: Action, Drama, History
A Taxi DriverRating: 4.0/5 (with 380380 votes)
A Taxi Driver (Korean: 택시운전사) is a 2017 South Korean historical action drama film directed by Jang Hoon and written by Eom Yu-na, with Song Kang-ho starring in the lead role, alongside Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, and Ryu Jun-yeol. Based on a real-life story, the film centers on a taxi driver from Seoul who unintentionally becomes involved in the events of the Gwangju Uprising in 1980. It is based on German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter's interactions with driver Kim Sa-bok; however, as very little information on Kim was known at the time the film was made, most elements regarding his life and the events that happened to him outside of Gwangju are fictional. The film was released on 2 August 2017, in South Korea. It was very positively received by critics, who praised its unique approach to depicting the Gwangju Uprising events, emotional weight, as well as the main character and his relationship with Hinzpeter, and was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 9... ()
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About A Taxi Driver

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

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Additional Information

Production country: South Korea
Plays in: Gwangju, Seoul
Made by: Showbox, The LAMP
Original language: Korean (KO)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO)
Translated into 22 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 08/02/2017
Director: Jang Hoon
Film Editor: Kim Sang-bum
Composer: Jo Yeong-wook
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"택시 운전사"
"出租车司机"
"逆權司機"
"Egy taxisofőr"
"Taeksi Woonjunsa"
"택시운전사"
"我只是個計程車司機"
"Taeksi woonjunsa"
Budget: 12,820,005 USD
Revenue: 81,927,980 USD (= 639%)

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