Samaritan Girl

Lost Innocence … Desperate Measures

Winner of ‘Best Director’ 2004 Berlin Film Festival

“Samaritan Girl is a bold and provocative work … strangely but powerfully moving.
One of contemporary cinema’s most intriguing directors.”
– Henry Sheehan, KPCC-FM

“Four Stars. Utterly compelling and unlike anything you’ve seen before.”
– Todd David Schwartz, CBS Radio

“Director Ki-duk Kim creates one of the most profoundly moving and strangely transcendent metaphoric images of intruded-upon (and violated) landscapes in recent cinema.”
– Senses of Cinema

“You never quite know what’s going to happen next.”
– Daily Variety

The road back from fallen innocence is one paved with regret, revenge and redemption in Samaritan Girl, a provocative film from acclaimed director Ki-duk Kim (3-Iron, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring), coming to DVD May 10th from Tartan Video.

Two teenage girls, Yeo-jin (Ji-min Kwak) and Jae-young (Min-jeong Seo), desperate to fulfill their dreams of traveling to Europe, set out to raise the money by starting a prostitution business. Yeo-jin handles the business side, while Jae-young satisfies the clients.

When things go terribly wrong during a police raid, Jae-young is killed. Yeo-jin, wrought with guilt over her loss, begins sleeping with their clients in a misguided act of penance. Things go from bad to worse when Yeo-jin’s father, a police detective, stumbles upon her secret and launches a vengeful crusade. At a difficult crossroads, father and daughter must embark on a desperate journey in the hope of attaining absolution and redemption.

Samaritan Girl was awarded the Gold Berlin Bear for “Best Film” and the Silver Berlin Bear for “Best Director” at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.

Korean, with English and Spanish subtitles, Samaritan Girl is presented in anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and DTS Surround Sound 5.1. Special DVD features include an interview with the filmmakers; “Making Of” featurette; photo gallery; and trailers of Tartan new releases.
U.K.-based Tartan Films, formed in 1982, is one of Britain’s most respected distributors of films, both theatrically and on home video. Tartan U.S.A., headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., was launched in October 2004 with an eclectic slate of films from established auteurs and up-and-coming filmmakers. Look for a cutting-edge slate of innovative, acclaimed and award-winning feature films to be released theatrically by Tartan Films and to the home entertainment market by Tartan Video. From American independents’ fare to major film festival winners to the best of international cinema, they are films from around the world that entertain, provoke and inspire … and are sometimes controversial. Tartan Video is distributed exclusively by TLA Releasing. For more information, visit www.tartanvideousa.com

Samaritan Girl
Tartan Video
Drama/Foreign
Rated: R (Special Features Not Rated)
Language: Korean (English and Spanish Subtitles)
Format: DVD Only
Running Time: Approx. 97 Minutes (Plus Special Features)