Excavator
2017, Korean. Directed by Lee Ju-hyoung.
20 years after discharge from the army and now an excavator driver, a former paratrooper who had been mobilized to suppress the May 18th Democratic Uprising in Korea in 1980, happens to find a skull in the ground one day. Driving his excavator, he pays visits to his former superiors one by one and realizes they were all both assailants and victims of the times.
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Korean
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- Released
- 27 July 2017
- Original title
- 포크레인
- Country
- South Korea
- Written by
- Kim Ki-duk
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Excavator runs 92 minutes (1h 32m).
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Excavator isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 27 July 2017. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Excavator?
Excavator (2017) was directed by Lee Ju-hyoung and stars Uhm Tae-woong, Kim Kyung-ik, Jeong Se-hyeong.