Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
Dalai Lama (Adult)
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Kundun. Kundun is a 1997 American epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet. Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, a grandnephew of the Dalai Lama, stars as the adult Dalai Lama, while Tencho ...
- $28 million
- Philip Glass
- December 25, 1997 (United States)
- Barbara De Fina
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Jan 16, 1998 · This literal faith in reincarnation, in the belief that the child at the beginning of "Kundun" is the same man who died four years before the child was born, sets the film's underlying tone. "Kundun" is structured as the life of the 14th Dalai Lama, but he is simply a vessel for a larger life or spirit, continuing through centuries.
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation of Tibet. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since. —Deki
Hallucinatory but lacking in characterization, Kundun is a young Dalai Lama portrait presented as a feast of sight and sound. In 1937, a two-and-a-half year old boy from a simple family in Tibet ...
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- Martin Scorsese
- PG-13
- Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
Dec 28, 2022 · The sprawling scale of Kundun ’s metaphysical vantage, stretching back to the first Dalai Lama in the fourteenth century, matches an aesthetic ornateness rivaled by few of Scorsese’s films ...
Apr 30, 1999 · In Search of Kundun with Martin Scorsese: Directed by Michael Henry Wilson. With The Dalai Lama, Roger Deakins, Dante Ferretti, Tencho Gyalpo. The making of Martin Scorsese s Oscar-nominated film Kundun was an historic event, the first feature film treatment of the life of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet.
