A portrait of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, which includes historical footage of China's repression of Tibetan Buddhism in 1959.
Direction
Lemle captures unguarded moments most leaders never show.
Production
Rare 1959 footage smuggled out feels impossibly alive.
Director
Mickey Lemle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Heinrich Harrer—of Seven Years in Tibet fame—appears here, his real-life connection to the Dalai Lama lending the doc unexpected narrative weight.
Released when 'Free Tibet' was becoming a Western cause célèbre, this doc arguably helped mainstream an exile narrative previously buried in geopolitical obscurity.
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