In Our Prime (2022)

Profile

• Movie: In Our Prime
• Revised romanization: Yisanghan Naraui Suhakja
• Hangul: 이상한 나라의 수학자
• Director: Park Dong-Hoon
• Writer: Lee Yong-Jae
• Producer: Hwang Jae-Soon
• Cinematographer:
• Release Date: March 9, 2022
• Runtime: 117 min.
• Distributor: Showbox
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Synopsis

Hak-Sung (Choi Min-Sik) was a genius mathematician in North Korea. He defected to South Korea and now hides his past life. He works as a security guard at a high school. There, he meets high school student Ji-Woo (Kim Dong-Hwi). Ji-Woo is about to give up on math, but circumstances leads Ji-Woo to ask Hak-Sung for help. Hak-Sung reluctantly agrees to teach math to Ji-Woo. An unlikely friendship soon blossoms, while Ji-Woo’s understanding of mathematics broadens, but trouble looms at the high school.