Made in Korea: A One-Way Ticket Seoul-Amsterdam?
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Cast & Crew
In-soo Radstake
In-soo Radstake
Ungila Van Es
Kyki Janssen
Stephanie Van Duin
Kim Schuurman
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Documentary filmmaker In-Soo Radstake is just like any average Dutchman. He feels close to his parents, likes meat and potatoes and cheers on his favorite sports team. A Korean adoptee, he doesn't feel conflicted about his identity or have any deep stirrings to find his Korean roots. But when he embarks on an innocent journey to find the eight other Korean adoptees who flew on the same plane as him from Korea to Holland over twenty years ago, a domino effect of events will alter his life. He first meets Ungila, and is taken by her knowledge of Korean culture and her personal story of being reunited with her birthmother. She quickly becomes In-Soo's girlfriend, and is instrumental in opening up a world of wounded, pent-up emotions. With her love and support, In-Soo travels back to Korea for the first time and visits his old orphanage. Soon a long-repressed need to find his birthmother bubbles to the surface, and In-Soo is on a desperate quest to reconcile a part of himself that he didn't even know existed.
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In-soo Radstake
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in Netherlands April 26, 2007
Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (Wide Angle - World Documentary 5) October 12-20, 2006.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Cinema of the World: Time & Tide) January 24-February 4, 2007.
DigiBeta
color and b&w
dialogue Dutch, Korean and English
Released in Netherlands April 26, 2007
