
The Fortress (Namhansanseong) [Sub: Eng]
In 1636, the Qing dynasty attacks Joseon. King Injo and his retainers, including Choi Myung-kil and Kim Sang-hun, hide in the mountain fortress city of Namhansanseong. They are isolated from the outside. Meanwhile, Choi Myung-kil insists that they enter into negotiations with the Qing dynasty, but Kim Sang-hun proposes that they keep fighting.



















21 January 1968, Danyang County, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea







2 April 1958, Gyeongsangnam-do, Chinhae, South Korea




2 February 1977, South Korea

12 July 1970, Seoul, South Korea

26 January 1977, South Korea






13 February 1970



1966, South Korea


4 October 1978, South Korea

1960
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October 20, 2017
"The Fortress" clocks in at 139 minutes, but feels much, much longer.
October 19, 2017
Without giving too much away, there's something for everyone here.
October 24, 2017
Hwang competently orchestrates the film's disparate political and strategic developments, but there's little sense of stylistic inspiration or narrative innovation - it's all pretty conventional.
October 19, 2017
So evocative that by the end viewers may be as cold and hungry as the movie's cast of courtiers.
October 20, 2017
The recreation of a historic moment in Korea's constantly embattled past becomes a rather enervating epic in the too diaogue-driven hands of director Hwang Dong-hyuk.
December 07, 2017
... a film that will probably mean most to viewers from Korea, where it was made - though you don't need to know much about the historical background to gather roughly what the story is meant to suggest about the present.