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With questions remaining about who the true culprit in the Samrye Nara Supermarket case was, detective Hwang Jun-cheol revisits the past investigation. Between those who were forced to confess and internal barriers blocking a reinvestigation, he continues to make choices aimed at uncovering the truth about the case.
OVERALL TRUTH BASIS · Fact-based dramatization
The film draws on the 1999 Samrye Nara Super robbery-murder case and its wrongful convictions and retrial, but some characters, including detective Hwang Jun-cheol, who drives the case, were drawn from other cases or created.
The Samrye Nara Super robbery-murder case and retrial
The film draws on the 1999 Samrye Nara Super robbery-murder case and its wrongful convictions and retrial, but some characters, including detective Hwang Jun-cheol, who drives the case, were drawn from other cases or created.
FACT / FICTION
Verification 7
Fact / Fiction verification
7 recordsThe 1999 Samrye Nara Super robbery-murder case is real.
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- It was a robbery-murder case that occurred in Samrye, Wanju, North Jeolla Province.
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- 삼례나라슈퍼 사건 실화와 황준철 캐릭터정지영 감독 인터뷰 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
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During the initial investigation, three young men were charged as the perpetrators and convicted.
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- The so-called “Samrye Three” spent a long time wrongfully imprisoned.
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- 삼례나라슈퍼 사건 실화와 황준철 캐릭터정지영 감독 인터뷰 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
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Later, testimony that there was a different perpetrator was followed by a reinvestigation.
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- The possibility of a wrongful conviction in the case was repeatedly raised.
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- 삼례나라슈퍼 사건 실화와 황준철 캐릭터정지영 감독 인터뷰 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
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At the 2016 retrial, the original defendants were acquitted.
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- The acquittal at the retrial was an actual judicial outcome.
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- 삼례나라슈퍼 사건 실화와 황준철 캐릭터정지영 감독 인터뷰 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
- 24년 전 나라슈퍼 사건으로 한국 사회를 보다…영화 소년들연합뉴스 · Major news · Grade BOpen source →
The film’s detective Hwang Jun-cheol is not a direct portrayal of one investigator from the actual case.
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- He is described as a character combining other cases and real investigative experience.
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- 삼례나라슈퍼 사건 실화와 황준철 캐릭터정지영 감독 인터뷰 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
- 24년 전 나라슈퍼 사건으로 한국 사회를 보다…영화 소년들연합뉴스 · Major news · Grade BOpen source →
The detective’s approach to pushing for a reinvestigation and the internal conflicts are cinematic reconstructions.
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- A separate dramatic structure was added to the actual retrial process.
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- 삼례나라슈퍼 사건 실화와 황준철 캐릭터정지영 감독 인터뷰 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
- 24년 전 나라슈퍼 사건으로 한국 사회를 보다…영화 소년들연합뉴스 · Major news · Grade BOpen source →
The scenes of suspect interrogations and coerced confessions are reenactments based on actual investigative problems, but the specific dialogue is made up.
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- The structure of the wrongful conviction must be distinguished from the recreation of individual scenes.
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- 삼례나라슈퍼 사건 실화와 황준철 캐릭터정지영 감독 인터뷰 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
- 24년 전 나라슈퍼 사건으로 한국 사회를 보다…영화 소년들연합뉴스 · Major news · Grade BOpen source →
CHARACTER ↔ PERSON
Characters and real people
황준철
Fictional composite characterSources used
- 삼례나라슈퍼 사건 실화와 황준철 캐릭터정지영 감독 인터뷰 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
- 24년 전 나라슈퍼 사건으로 한국 사회를 보다…영화 소년들연합뉴스 · Major news · Grade BOpen source →