The Attorney (2013) on Netflix
NR20132h 7m
Tax lawyer Song Woo-seok has money and respect in Busan. Then the son of the restaurant he frequents, high school student Park Jin-woo, vanishes, and Song takes the sedition case.
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb7.7/108,596 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes77%
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Plot summary
Song Woo-seok arrives in Busan in 1978, a former judge whose law career draws sneers from local attorneys because he passed the bar exam without attending university. He builds a practice on real estate and taxation and grows rich. A detective named Cha receives orders to clear Busan of communists. By 1981 Song has fame, respect and a sailboat he hopes to race at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. At dinner with high school classmates he argues with Lee, a journalist who backs the student protests. Soon after, the restaurant owner's son, high school student Park Jin-woo, disappears. His mother Choi Sun-ae searches for close to two months and shuts the restaurant before learning that the boy and other students face a sedition trial. Convinced the confessions against them were beaten out of them, Song agrees to defend them.
Cast
- Min-Ki Joas Prosecutor Kang Young-cheol
- Kwang Soo Chaas Park Byung-ho
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Attorney (2013)
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- The film was inspired by the real-life "Burim case" of 1981, when 22 students, teachers and office workers in South Korea were arrested without warrants under the authoritarian Chun Doo-hwan regime on fabricated charges of being North Korea sympathizers. Roh Moo-hyun, later the 9th president, formed the defense team with allies including Moon Jae-in, later the 12th president.
