Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

(2003)

★ 7.8 IMDb · 1,236 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2003

Runtime: 103 мин

Country: South Korea, Germany

Director: 김기덕

Cast: О Ён-су, 김기덕, Kim Young-min, 서재경, Kim Jong-ho, Ha Yeo-jin, 김정영, 지대한, 최민, Пак Джи-а

Plot

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.

In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis...