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71: Into the Fire
MEANRANK
77/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Letterboxd on 67, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90. Critics average 90, everyone else 75.
See the most agreed on films →Based on a true story, this film is set during the Korean War in 1950. A group of 71 student soldiers, all still in high school, are left to defend a middle school in Pohang against the advancing North Korean army. Led by a reluctant teenager, Kang Seok-dae, the ill-equipped and inexperienced boys must hold their position against a battalion of elite enemy troops. Their desperate stand becomes a brutal trial by fire, transforming the students from boys into soldiers in a matter of days.
Details
- Director
- John H. Lee
- Writers
- Chung Tae-won, John H. Lee, Lee Man-hee
- Released
- 16 June 2010
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Budget
- $10.4M
- Box office
- $21.0M