Field of Honor (1986 film) explained

Field of Honor
Director:	Kim Dae-hie Hans Scheepmaker
Producer:	Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan, Hyeon-suk Han
Starring:	Everett McGill Ron Brandsteder Bart Römer
Music:	Roy Budd
Editing:	Victorine Habets
Distributor:	Cannon Films
Runtime:	110 min
Country:	Netherlands South Korea
Language:	English Korean

Field of Honor (Dutch; Flemish: Het veld van eer) is a 1986 Dutch/South Korean war film set during the Korean War, directed by Kim Dae-hie and Hans Scheepmaker.

Plot

After an attack by Chinese troops, a Dutch sergeant (whose troops committed atrocities against the local population) finds himself alone in the field. He meets a young Korean woman who tries to save her little brother who is shell shocked. This changes the sergeant's outlook on the war.

Cast

• Everett McGill – Sergeant 'Sire' De Koning
• – Tiny
• – Lieutenant
• – Taihutu (as Annies De Jong)
• Lee Hye-young – Sun Yi (as Hey Young Lee)
• Kim Dong-hyeon – Applesan (as Dong Hyum Kim)
• Min Yu – Kim
• Marc Van Eeghem – Brammetje
• – Wiel
• Guus van der Made – Leen
• Choi Jae-ho – Chinese Medic (as Jae Ho Choi)
• Mike Mooney – Journalist
• Jon Bluming – Platoon Sergeant
• Fritz Homann – Truck Driver
• David Hartung – Radioman

Reception

The film got a negative review in the Dutch communist newspaper De Waarheid.^[1]

External links

• • Movie trailer of Field of Honor

Notes and References

1. News: Field of honor wijkt af van oorlogstraditie . De Waarheid . March 20, 1987 . November 30, 2011 . Van Eerten, Ronald . 9 . nl . December 2, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111202220059/http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd:010471928:mpeg21:p009:a0079 . dead .