Choi Ha-won

Choi Ha -won ( born 1937 ) is a South Korean film director. He has directed more than 25 feature films and also wrote the screenplay for six films.

After he had completed his studies of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University, he made ​​his first feature film Namdeul orbitals seoda (1968).

His most famous films created Ha -won with literary adaptations in the late 1960s and the 1970s. After a short story by Hwang Soon -won the drama Dokjitneun neulgeuni ( 독 짓는 늙은이 ), which appeared in 1969, at the Oscar ceremony in 1970 could hope for as a South Korean submitting a nomination for " Best Foreign Language Film ", but was ultimately not nominated arose. The movie is about a lonely potter who saves the life of one day a young woman and then marries; when the woman goes away later with another man and the potter and the son of the two leaves, commits suicide the potter. Just as in Munyeodo (1972 ) the director processed religious themes here.

As his most important work looks Choi ( Jeoljeong ) (1978 ) on. This was not like most South Korean films at this time, after a literary model, but based on an original screenplay by Lee Hui -wu. The film Chodaebadeun saramdeul ( 초대 받은 성웅 들 ) won the 1981 award for " Best Film " at the Daejong Film Festival. In 1990, after his film Hwarang dae ( 화랑대 ), he retired from the film business.

The director was also a board member of the Korean film council and a professor at the Korean Academy of Motion Arts.