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The Flower Girl

꽃파는 처녀

1972

Under Japanese occupation, a poor girl sells flowers to buy medicine for her dying mother while her family suffers under the colonial yoke, in a tale of hardship and awakening class consciousness. A revered North Korean revolutionary classic.

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Part of 3 Essential Films from North Korea

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