From Seoul to Varanasi
2012, Korean. Directed by Jeon Kyu-hwan.
Youngwu and Jiyoung have been married for ten years and have long since grown apart. He, a publisher, is having an affair with a writer and she, a housewife, feels drawn to a gentle young Muslim she meets named Kerim. When he is obliged to leave the country she decides to follow him to Varanasi. Leaving her husband a note saying that she is away visiting relatives, she spends her time wandering along the banks of the Ganges and down the busy streets of this Hindu city in search of Kerim. When he turns on the television her husband is astonished to see his wife covered in ashes, emerging from a restaurant that has been bombed by terrorists. Youngwo decides to head for India to find his wife and obtain an explanation for her behaviour.
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- 1h 38m
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- Korean
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- Released
- 13 February 2012
- Original title
- 불륜의 시대
- Country
- South Korea
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- Jeon Kyu-hwan
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From Seoul to Varanasi runs 98 minutes (1h 38m).
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Who directed From Seoul to Varanasi?
From Seoul to Varanasi (2012) was directed by Jeon Kyu-hwan and stars Yoon Dong-hwan, Choi Won-jung, Nollaig Walsh.