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Susanne Brink's Arirang
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Wikipedia article
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| name = Susanne Brink's Arirang
| image = Susanne Brink's Arirang film poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
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| director = Jang Gil-su
| producer = Kim Kae-sung
| writer = Yu U-jae
Jang Gil-su
| starring = Choi Jin-sil
| music = Shin Byung-ha
| cinematography = Son Hyeon-chae
| editing = Kim Hee-su
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| country = South Korea
Sweden
| language = Korean
Swedish
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'Susanne Brink's Arirang' is a 1991 South Korean/Swedish film based upon the life and experiences of Susanne Brink, an adult Korean adoptee from Sweden who suffered abuse and racism in her adoptive home and country. The real Susanne Brink died of cancer in January 2009 at the age of 45; she was interred in her hometown of Norrkping.
Cast
* Choi Jin-sil ... Susanne
* sa lmeby ... Nurse
* Kim Yun-kyeong
* Malin Berghagen ... Ulrika
* Pierre Boutros ... Christer
* Lars Green ... Rune
* Pia Green ... Inger
* Jeon Suk
* Helena Lindblom
* Park Yong-soo
* Niclas Wahlgren ... Willy
* Mona Seilitz....Birgitta
* Kim Ji-young
References
* Hbinette, Tobias. "[http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue11/hubinette.html The Nation is a Woman: The Korean Nation Embodied as an Overseas Adopted Korean Woman in Chang Kil-su's 'Susanne Brink's Arirang']". 'Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context', Issue 11, August 2005. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.
* Hbinette, Tobias. "The suffering and shaming of Korea". '[http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_su_diva-696-2__fulltext.pdf Comforting an Orphaned Nation]', pp. 126143. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.
* Hbinette, Tobias. "Susanne Brink's Arirang". '[http://www.tobiashubinette.se/sweden_and_adoption.pdf The adopted Koreans of Sweden and the Korean adoption issue]', pp. 911. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.
* Hbinette, Tobias. "Representing Adopted Korean Women in Korean Feature Films". '[http://www.tobiashubinette.se/adoption_in_popular_culture.pdf Nationalism, Subalternity, and the Adopted Koreans]', pp. 118119. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.
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