Movie
Ransomed
Overview
In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.
Details
- Release date
- 2023-08-02
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Genres
- Action, Thriller, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Wind Up Film, Why Not Film
- Country
- South Korea
- Original language
- KO
Cast
- Ha Jung-woo as Lee Min-jun
- Ju Ji-hoon as Kim Pan-su
- Lim Hyung-kook as Oh Jae-seok
- Kim Eung-soo as Director
- Kim Jong-soo as Minister Choi
- Park Hyuk-kwon as Manager Park
- Yoo Seung-mok as Vice-minister Lee
- Jang So-yeon as Jae-seok's Wife
- Choi Jung-woo as Chief secretary
- Burn Gorman as Carter
- Marcin Dorociński as Hayes
- Fehd Benchemsi as Karim
Crew
- Kim Seong-hun - Director
- Kim Jung-youn - Writer
- Yeo Mi-jeong - Writer
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