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Sky-blue Hometown
Sky-blue Hometown

SKY-BLUE HOMETOWN

Ha-neol-sack go-hyang

Directed by Kim So-young
South Korea, 2000
Documentary

Synopsis

The Korean artist Nikolai Shin (Shin Sun-nam) lives in Uzbekistan. For 33 years, he worked behind closed doors, invisible to the KGB, on his magnum opus: Requiem, an enormous painting in which he incorporated all the anger about the fate of the Koreans under Stalin.

Synopsis

The Korean artist Nikolai Shin (Shin Sun-nam) lives in Uzbekistan. For 33 years, he worked behind closed doors, invisible to the KGB, on his magnum opus: Requiem, an enormous painting in which he incorporated all the anger about the fate of the Koreans under Stalin.