---
title: 'Salt (1985)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Shin Sang-ok'
released: '1985-01-01'
countries:
  - 'North Korea'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/salt-1985'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328449/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Salt (1985)

1985 · North Korea

Original title: 소금

## Synopsis

Salt is a 1985 North Korean tragedy film directed by Shin Sang-ok. It is the third of Shin's North Korean films after he and his wife Choi Eun-hee were abducted and brought to the country against their will. Choi stars in Salt as an unnamed mother who disapproves of her son after he runs away with guerrillas, but eventually comes to see them as fighting for a just cause. The film is set in 1930s Kando (Jiandao) where ethnic Koreans are persecuted by the Chinese and Japanese.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Shin Sang-ok](https://cinepixo.com/people/shin-sang-ok)

## Cast

- [Choi Eun-hee](https://cinepixo.com/people/choi-eun-hee) as mother

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