Pietà(Movie, 2012)

Name: Pietà
Genre: Drama
Released: 2012
Duration: T01:44:00
Rating: 3.6

Original title: "피에타" (Korean/KO)

| 1h 44min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 153 votes)

Pietà (Korean: 피에타) is a 2012 South Korean crime thriller film written and directed by Kim Ki-duk. It depicts the mysterious relationship between a brutal man who works for loan sharks and a middle-aged woman who claims that she is his mother, mixing Christian symbolism and highly sexual content. It made its world premiere in the competition line-up of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. It is the first Korean film to win the top prize at one of the three major international film festivals—Venice, Cannes and Berlin. The title refers to the Italian Pietà (piety/pity), signifying depictions of the Virgin Mary cradling the corpse of Jesus. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Pietà

Golden Lion

About Pietà

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

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Trailer for Pietà + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

PIETA - Official Trailer - Winner Of The Golden Lion(Trailer, 2:05)

PIETA - Official Trailer - Winner Of The Golden Lion (Trailer) | Trailer 1 (Trailer) | PIETA Clip 1 | Festival 2012 (Clip)

Additional Information

Production country: South Korea

Shot in: South Korea

Plays in: Seoul

Made by: NEW, Kim Ki-Duk Film

Original language: Korean (KO)

Spoken languages: Korean (KO)

Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/17/2013 (World premiere: 09/05/2012)

Cast: Lee Jeong-jin, Jo Min-su, Kang Eun-jin, Woo Ki-hong, Cho Jae-ryong, Kwon Yul, Song Mun-su, Kim Beom-jun, Jin Yong-uk, Yu Ha-bok, Heo Jun-seok, Son Jong-hak

Director: Kim Ki-duk

Producer: Kim Ki-duk

Screenwriter: Kim Ki-duk

Executive Producer: Kim Ki-duk

Film Editor: Kim Ki-duk

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Pi-e-ta"

"Πιετά"

"Kim Ki-duk s Pieta"

"嘆きのピエタ"

Keywords: child abandonment, loan shark, attempted rape, mature, revenge, incest, long lost relative

Budget: 103,000 USD

Revenue: 6,616,296 USD (= 6,424%)

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Pietà(Movie, 2012)

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