Escape from Mogadishu (Korean: 모가디슈 ; RR: Mogadisyu) is a 2021 South Korean political action thriller film, directed by Ryoo Seung-wan and starring Kim Yoon-seok, Zo In-sung, Heo Joon-ho, Koo Kyo-hwan, Kim So-jin and Jung Man-sik.
The film, based on real evts, is set during the overthrow of Siad Barre and the two Koreas' efforts to be admitted to the United Nations in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It depicts details of a perilous escape attempt made by North and South Korean embassy workers stranded during the conflict.
Escape from Mogadishu was anticipated to release in summer of 2020 but its release was postponed due to the resurgce of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released theatrically on July 28, 2021, by Lotte tertainmt in IMAX format.
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On accounting its box office performance, the film ranked at number 5 at the worldwide box office in the first week of August 2021 as per American media Scre Daily report on August 11.
The film was selected as the South Korean try for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
And at 42nd Blue Dragon Film Awards including 'Best Film' award. At Blue Dragon Film Awards it was voted as Most Popular Film and Koo Kyo-hwan as Popular Star.
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In 1991, Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, is still ruled by the Barre governmt but threated by a rebel movemt. Meanwhile, both the North and South Korean embassies are lobbying to be admitted into the United Nations and looking towards the Somali governmt for support.
Kang Dae-jin, an intelligce officer rectly assigned to the South Korean embassy, is tasked with passing gifts from the South Korean governmt to Presidt Barre. He meets Han Sin-seong, the ambassador in Somalia, who is running late to the meeting with the presidt and thus immediately takes the gifts. While route to the presidtial palace, rebels intercept the ambassador and rob the gifts. They further spray his car with bullets, forcing him and his secretary, Gong Su-cheol, to run to the presidtial palace. The two m miss the appointmt by fifte minutes and are thus died an audice with the presidt. As Sin-seong attempts to explain their delay, he catches a glimpse of the North Korean ambassador, Rim Yong-su, being escorted into a meeting room. In his view, Somalia's support for North Korea will prevt South Korea from joining the UN. Sin-seong initially believes Yong-su to be the mastermind behind the robbery, but it is revealed that the North Korean embassy's intelligce officer, Tae Joon-ki, was the one who bribed the rebels to delay and rob Sin-seong. Knowing what happed, Yong-su tells Joon-ki that this was a shameless act that was unhelpful and possibly detrimtal to the North Korean efforts.
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Dae-jin reveals to Sin-Seong that he had bribed a Western journalist with a packet of cigarettes for photos depicting rebels wielding North Korean-made firearms, thus implying that North Korea is supplying weapons to both the Somali governmt and the rebels. Wh Sin-seong questions this, Dae-jin dismisses his concerns, stating that if the photos are published, the Somali governmt will condemn North Korea ev if the latter is not ultimately responsible. The next day they meet with the Somali foreign minister at a hotel, showing him the photos. However the minister does not care and instead asks for bribes. Disgusted, Sin-seong leaves the meeting and spots North Korean Ambassador Rim moving gifts into the minister's car. Sin-seong confronts him about the robbery earlier; the latter counters that the South was no better for framing the North for supplying weapons to the rebels. Before the two come to blows, shots ring out outside the hotel - the civil war has reached Mogadishu.
Both North and South Korean diplomats are stranded in the hotel for hours as the Somali governmt imposes a lockdown on Mogadishu. Meanwhile at the South Korean embassy, Sin-seong's wife, Myeung-hee, and the other diplomats, are startled by the ringing doorbell; appartly the ambassador's Somali driver, Sawma, has stumbled into the embassy, badly wounded. Su-cheol carries him inside, but upon laying him on a bed he notices Sawma's scarf bearing the markings of Geral Aidid's rebels. While the diplomats contemplate on what to do with him in fear that he was actually a rebel, the police suddly arrive and try to barge their way into the compound. Sin-seong and Dae-jin arrive just in time to ward them off. Meanwhile, Sawma had slipped out of the embassy, and while running on the streets, the police catch up to him and bludgeon him to death.
The next day riots have brok out at every area of Mogadishu. Geral Aidid has also st messages to all embassies to either work with them to topple the Barre regime, or be deemed an emy and be prepared to be slaughtered. Sin-seong, fearing for Myeung-hee's safety, tries sding her back to South Korea, but is unable to do so as all banks and travel agcies in Mogadishu have be shut. As the Somali military finally retaliates with lethal force, both the North and South Korean diplomats realize that the situation has spiraled out of control and with both power and communication networks all being brok, they must leave the country as quickly as possible. Sin-seong and Dae-jin head to the airport but are st back as they are unable to communicate to the home governmt in Seoul, and lack official documts of clearance. Likewise, the North Koreans fail to make it to the airport, and are st back.
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In his desperation, Joon-ki sds for the rebel leader that he had previously employed to rob the South Koreans, for his assistance to get passes for the North Korean diplomats to get to the airport. However, the rebel leader betrays Joon-ki just as he set foot into the compound and the rebels started beating the m, robbing the tire place, and sexually harassing the wom. Joon-ki, though beat heavily, is spared as he once paid them well for the job.
With supplies nearly gone, Yong-su orders an evacuation and to head to the Chinese embassy for shelter, only to find it abandoned and being looted by rebels. They are discovered by a group of child soldiers, who point their rifles at them. The childr in the North Korean posse pretd that they were shot and collapse on the ground; the adults follow suit. The child soldiers happily shoot in the air in victory, attracting the atttion of more rebels. The North Koreans swiftly flee and stumble right outside the South Korean embassy. Seeing no other option, Yong-su decides to ask the South Koreans for help, despite Joon-ki protesting that doing so would risk being labeled as traitors in Pyongyang. He yells for sanctuary, within earshot of Sin-seong, who is suspicious of the North Koreans's motives. Just th, a group of rebels close towards the embassy, firing their guns wildly in the air, but are driv away by the security detail that Dae-jin had obtained from the police. With the North Koreans now in the line of danger, Sin-seong relts and ops the gate to let them in.
As dinner is served, the North Koreans dare not touch the food in fear that the South Koreans had laced it with poison. Sin-seong swaps his rice bowl with Yong-su’s and eats from it, proving that the food wasn’t poisoned. Relieved, both sides start eating and sharing food. Dae-jin, ssing an opportunity for propaganda, covertly takes pictures of the dinner and steals the North Koreans’s diplomatic passports to make defection certificates, but Joon-ki catches him, and a fistfight breaks out betwe the two. Yong-su and Sin-seong step in and tear them both apart, lamting that political ideologies no longer matter, but sheer survival and working together to escape Mogadishu.
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With both the Americans and Chinese already having fled Mogadishu, both ambassadors agree to seek help from their other allies that are still in the city; with Sin-seong heading to the Italian embassy while Yong-su heading to the Egyptian embassy. At the crack of dawn, Joon-ki and Yong-su reach the Egyptian embassy only to find it filled with refugees and no possible aid. Meanwhile at the Italian embassy, the Italian ambassador informs Sin-seong and Dae-jin that the South Koreans can join the Red Cross's evacuation flight to Mombasa, Kya, but that the North Koreans cannot, as Italy and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations. Sin-seong lies that the North Koreans are defectors to the South but that they cannot prove this until their return. The Italian ambassador accept this and allows the tire party to board the plane, requiring all to arrive by 4 pm.
With this assurance, the Koreans make preparations to leave, including taping the cars with bags of dirt and books as makeshift armor, and making white flags out of their clothes. The convoy depart during Islamic prayer
Dae-jin reveals to Sin-Seong that he had bribed a Western journalist with a packet of cigarettes for photos depicting rebels wielding North Korean-made firearms, thus implying that North Korea is supplying weapons to both the Somali governmt and the rebels. Wh Sin-seong questions this, Dae-jin dismisses his concerns, stating that if the photos are published, the Somali governmt will condemn North Korea ev if the latter is not ultimately responsible. The next day they meet with the Somali foreign minister at a hotel, showing him the photos. However the minister does not care and instead asks for bribes. Disgusted, Sin-seong leaves the meeting and spots North Korean Ambassador Rim moving gifts into the minister's car. Sin-seong confronts him about the robbery earlier; the latter counters that the South was no better for framing the North for supplying weapons to the rebels. Before the two come to blows, shots ring out outside the hotel - the civil war has reached Mogadishu.
Both North and South Korean diplomats are stranded in the hotel for hours as the Somali governmt imposes a lockdown on Mogadishu. Meanwhile at the South Korean embassy, Sin-seong's wife, Myeung-hee, and the other diplomats, are startled by the ringing doorbell; appartly the ambassador's Somali driver, Sawma, has stumbled into the embassy, badly wounded. Su-cheol carries him inside, but upon laying him on a bed he notices Sawma's scarf bearing the markings of Geral Aidid's rebels. While the diplomats contemplate on what to do with him in fear that he was actually a rebel, the police suddly arrive and try to barge their way into the compound. Sin-seong and Dae-jin arrive just in time to ward them off. Meanwhile, Sawma had slipped out of the embassy, and while running on the streets, the police catch up to him and bludgeon him to death.
The next day riots have brok out at every area of Mogadishu. Geral Aidid has also st messages to all embassies to either work with them to topple the Barre regime, or be deemed an emy and be prepared to be slaughtered. Sin-seong, fearing for Myeung-hee's safety, tries sding her back to South Korea, but is unable to do so as all banks and travel agcies in Mogadishu have be shut. As the Somali military finally retaliates with lethal force, both the North and South Korean diplomats realize that the situation has spiraled out of control and with both power and communication networks all being brok, they must leave the country as quickly as possible. Sin-seong and Dae-jin head to the airport but are st back as they are unable to communicate to the home governmt in Seoul, and lack official documts of clearance. Likewise, the North Koreans fail to make it to the airport, and are st back.
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In his desperation, Joon-ki sds for the rebel leader that he had previously employed to rob the South Koreans, for his assistance to get passes for the North Korean diplomats to get to the airport. However, the rebel leader betrays Joon-ki just as he set foot into the compound and the rebels started beating the m, robbing the tire place, and sexually harassing the wom. Joon-ki, though beat heavily, is spared as he once paid them well for the job.
With supplies nearly gone, Yong-su orders an evacuation and to head to the Chinese embassy for shelter, only to find it abandoned and being looted by rebels. They are discovered by a group of child soldiers, who point their rifles at them. The childr in the North Korean posse pretd that they were shot and collapse on the ground; the adults follow suit. The child soldiers happily shoot in the air in victory, attracting the atttion of more rebels. The North Koreans swiftly flee and stumble right outside the South Korean embassy. Seeing no other option, Yong-su decides to ask the South Koreans for help, despite Joon-ki protesting that doing so would risk being labeled as traitors in Pyongyang. He yells for sanctuary, within earshot of Sin-seong, who is suspicious of the North Koreans's motives. Just th, a group of rebels close towards the embassy, firing their guns wildly in the air, but are driv away by the security detail that Dae-jin had obtained from the police. With the North Koreans now in the line of danger, Sin-seong relts and ops the gate to let them in.
As dinner is served, the North Koreans dare not touch the food in fear that the South Koreans had laced it with poison. Sin-seong swaps his rice bowl with Yong-su’s and eats from it, proving that the food wasn’t poisoned. Relieved, both sides start eating and sharing food. Dae-jin, ssing an opportunity for propaganda, covertly takes pictures of the dinner and steals the North Koreans’s diplomatic passports to make defection certificates, but Joon-ki catches him, and a fistfight breaks out betwe the two. Yong-su and Sin-seong step in and tear them both apart, lamting that political ideologies no longer matter, but sheer survival and working together to escape Mogadishu.
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With both the Americans and Chinese already having fled Mogadishu, both ambassadors agree to seek help from their other allies that are still in the city; with Sin-seong heading to the Italian embassy while Yong-su heading to the Egyptian embassy. At the crack of dawn, Joon-ki and Yong-su reach the Egyptian embassy only to find it filled with refugees and no possible aid. Meanwhile at the Italian embassy, the Italian ambassador informs Sin-seong and Dae-jin that the South Koreans can join the Red Cross's evacuation flight to Mombasa, Kya, but that the North Koreans cannot, as Italy and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations. Sin-seong lies that the North Koreans are defectors to the South but that they cannot prove this until their return. The Italian ambassador accept this and allows the tire party to board the plane, requiring all to arrive by 4 pm.
With this assurance, the Koreans make preparations to leave, including taping the cars with bags of dirt and books as makeshift armor, and making white flags out of their clothes. The convoy depart during Islamic prayer
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