Secretly and greatly (2013)

Secretly, Greatly (Hangul: 은밀하게 위대하게; RR: Eunmilhage Widaehage) is a 2013 South Korean action comedy-drama film starring Kim Soo-hyun, Park Ki-woong, and Lee Hyun-woo, who play North Korean spies who infiltrate South Korea as a village idiot, a rock musician, and a high school student, respectively. They assimilate to small town life while awaiting their orders, until one day, due to a sudden power shift in the North, their mission turns out to be an order to commit suicide.

The film is based on the 2010 spy webtoon series Covertness by Hun, which has received over 40 million page hits. And upon its release on June 5, 2013, the film broke several box office records in South Korea: the highest single day opening for a domestic film, most tickets sold in one day for a domestic film, the biggest opening weekend, the highest-grossing webtoon-based film, and the fastest movie to reach the 1 million, 2 million, 3 million, and 4 million marks in audience number. Movie pundits attribute its success to a large percentage of teen audience turnout.

Synopsis

Le 5446 est un groupe d’agents très spéciaux nord-coréens, prêts à mourir pour leur pays. Won Ryoo-hwan, surentraîné depuis son plus jeune âge, représente l’élite de cette unité créée dans le but idéaliste d’unifier la Corée. Dans le cadre d’une mission d’espionnage, Ryoo-hwan est envoyé dans un petit village sud-coréen où il doit jouer l’idiot du quartier. Après deux ans d’ennui et de frustration à faire le pitre sans recevoir d’ordre, il s’habitue peu à peu à sa vie ordinaire au contact des habitants du village.

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