Duka biography

In the year, the family moved to Seoul. At the age of 17, due to financial difficulties, Kim Ki Duk began to work.

At 20, he was drafted into the army, served in the Marine Corps for a year. After demobilization, he was an artist in the church, planned to become a priest. However, seriously carried away by painting, in the year he went to Paris, where he studied graceful arts for three years. In the same period, he discovered cinema. According to the memoirs of Kim Ki Duka, then the most impression was made by the paintings "Silence of the lamb", dir.

Jonathan Demme and "lovers from the new bridge", dir. Leos Carax. In the year, he made his debut as a director with a low -budget drama Crocodile. According to the plot, the main character - a bandit, nicknamed a crocodile - saves a girl who tried to make suicide, after which he rethinks her life thanks to the feeling of love. In the same year, the film was demonstrated at the International Film Festival in Busan South Korea and received positive reviews of critics.

Then there were dramas about the representatives of the social lower classes “Wild Animals”, “The Bird Cage Hotel” The Scandalously known “Island” was awarded the nomination for the Golden Leo and the special prize of the Venetian Film Festival in the city In this film, the subsequently famous style of Kim Ki Duka was manifested - the paradox of the plot plan, a slow rhythm, a laconic narrative.

It was from this picture that European critics began to talk about Kim Ki Duke, as a new voice of Asian cinema. One of the most famous paintings by Kim Ki Duk is the philosophical parable “Spring, summer, autumn, winter, the film was warmly accepted by critics and spectators and became commercially successful. The drama of the year Samaritan and the Empty House were awarded with numerous international film aids, including for the best directing - the“ silver bear ”of the Berlin Film Festival and a special directorial award The Venetian festival, in the year, his drama "Pieta" won five prizes of the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Leo for the best film.

operator, producer, editor and even actor. Kim Ki Duk was headed by the jury of the main competition of the Moscow International Film Festival in the year. In November of the same year, the director became chairman of the jury of the main competition of the IV Sochi International Film Festival. The director did not advertise his personal life. In recent years, he lived in Europe.