In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Release Date | December 27, 2017 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | 1987 | |
Runtime | 2h 9min | |
Budget | $12,308,000 | |
Revenue | $49,380,115 | |
Language | Korean | |
Original Language | Korean | |
Production Countries | South Korea | |
Production Companies | CJ EntertainmentWoojeong Film |