VTV.vn – Nữ đạo diễn chia sẻ về quá trình làm phim “Mưa đỏ” và khát vọng truyền tải giá trị hòa bình cho thế hệ hôm nay.
Trong cuộc trò chuyện với Thời báo VTV, NSƯT, Thượng tá Đặng Thái Huyền – Phó Giám đốc Điện ảnh Quân đội nhân dân và ekip đã khẳng định: Sáng tạo điện ảnh không có giới hạn giới tính, chỉ có sự tận hiến và trách nhiệm với lịch sử. Bộ phim không chỉ tái hiện chiến tranh, mà còn truyền tải giá trị hòa bình, tình yêu và niềm tin cho thế hệ hôm nay.
PV: Sau khi phim Địa đạo: Mặt trời trong bóng tối đạt thành tích khá tốt dịp A50, chị có cảm thấy áp lực doanh thu khi ra mắt Mưa đỏ dịp A80 không?
Đạo diễn Đặng Thái Huyền: Tôi nghĩ rằng việc xuất hiện nhiều phim đề tài lịch sử – chiến tranh là tín hiệu đáng mừng để khích lệ những người làm phim như chúng tôi, và cả thế hệ trẻ có thể tiếp tục xông pha vào dòng phim được xem là “khó, khổ và khô” này. Với tôi, đó không phải áp lực, mà là niềm hạnh phúc và động lực.
Đạo diễn và những nhân viên đoàn phim tại bối cảnh quay.
Robert Calabretta holds his baby photo from before he was adopted out of South Korea to a family in the United States, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, at his apartment in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the plane descended into Seoul, Robert Calabretta swaddled himself in a blanket, his knees tucked into his chest like a baby in the womb. A single tear ran down his cheek.
The 34-year-old felt like a newborn — he was about to meet his parents for the first time since he was 3 days old.
Most of his life, he thought they’d abandoned him for adoption to the United States. When he finally found them, he learned the truth: The origin story on his adoption paperwork was a lie. Instead, he said, his parents were told in 1986 that their infant was very sick and they thought he had died.
“I am so sorry,” his birth father had written when they found each other, his words interrupted by fits of weeping. “I miss you. How did you endure this cruel world?”
Robert Calabretta sits for a portrait at the restaurant where he works, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Calabretta is among a growing and vocal community of victims of an adoption system they accuse of searching out children for would-be parents, rather than finding parents for vulnerable children — sometimes with devastating consequences only surfacing today.
South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press found. Those children grew up and searched for their roots — and some realized they are not who they were told.
Their stories have sparked a reckoning that is rocking the international adoption industry, which was built in South Korea and spread around the world. European countries have launched investigations and halted international adoption. The South Korean government has accepted a fact-finding commission under pressure from adoptees, and hundreds have submitted their cases for review.
Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some to loving homes. Others to tragic ends. Raised in places where they looked like nobody else, many were told to forget their past and be grateful.
But the innate desire to understand where you came from has led many Korean adoptees to search for their roots. In the process, they discover lies in their past and families they never knew existed. In this documentary, correspondent Wei Du travels around the world to meet Korean adoptees and accompany a few on their journey to reclaim who they are. Together, they reveal how an “orphan rescue” mission separated families and erased the roots of hundreds of thousands.
00:00 Meet the adoptees 01:44 The lie of Korea’s “orphans” 03:04 A song I no longer recognise 05:15 Why 10,000 Korean children were sent to Sweden 07:11 How Sweden became a hub for Korean adoptions 10:29 Why the US took in so many Korean children 15:06 GI babies: Korea’s children of US soldiers 19:54 Cult leader’s adopted Korean children 24:13 “Saved from prostitution”? The truth of my adoption 27:55 Why this US couple adopted in 2005 32:03 Lies in our adoption stories 38:22 How Sweden pressured Korea to give up more children 42:49 Chase’s biological sister visits for his 20th birthday 46:15 Anna’s life in Sweden: Always different 48:54 Phil’s search for his birth family 52:46 Rebuilding siblinghood: Mary & Chase’s struggle 58:17 Catherine’s complex relationship with her adoptive mother 1:00:47 Catherine and Anna reunite after 50 years 1:06:58 Phil returns to Korea after 50 years 1:08:58 Koroot: NGO supporting Korean adoptees 1:10:15 Were adoption agencies in it for the money? 1:11:53 “A child supply market”: Moses Farrow 1:17:24 Korea investigates human rights violations in adoption 1:19:26 Confronting the orphanage manager who sent him abroad 1:23:41 Adoptees find comfort in each other 1:26:25 Han Tae-soon’s hunt for her kidnapped daughter 1:29:28 The fight for truth continues
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