Korean pic “Children…” scores numerous deals at Berlin film fest

Film “Children…” [YoungHwaIn]

Korean film “Children…” has been sold to a number of countries at the ongoing Berlin International Film Festival, revealed to the film’s promoter YoungHwaIn Co. on Friday.

According to press release by YoungHwaIn today, “Children…”, based on the true story of the mysterious disappearance and death of five young boys two decades ago, has been sold to Lionsgate International, a subsidiary of Hollywood’s well-known distributor Lionsgate Co., for the Americas and Europe.

The film was also picked up by Comstock Group for Japan, M Pictures for Thailand, Media Max for Malaysia and MegaStar for Vietnam, making it the Korean film to record the highest sales at the film fest so far.

Starring Park Yong-woo, Ryu Seung-ryong, Sung Dong-il, Sung Ji-ru and Kim Yeo-jin, "Children..." gives a vivid portrayal of the unresolved case of the death of five primary-school boys in Daegu city who first went missing after taking off to a nearby mountain to catch frogs in the spring of 1991.

About a 500,000-strong police force was mobilized to comb the village and mountain in search of the boys, making headlines nationwide. Their remains were found at a construction site for a high school in 2002 with evident evidence of a homicide but the case got closed upon reaching the statute of limitations in 2006.

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