In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

Oct 7, 1998

1h 25m

★ 6.5

A spiritual journey through the lens of a master filmmaker.

Overview

In Search of Kundun, a “making-of” documentary that is so much more, follows Scorsese as he plans his epic film and shoots in Morocco, and continues on to an audience with the Dalai Lama himself in the foothills of the Himalayas. Edited from over a hundred hours of footage, the documentary captures Scorsese’s fervor as a filmmaker and a man, the modest yet charismatic Dalai Lama, and the plight of the exiled Tibetans. -Denver Film Society

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

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Tenzin Gyatso

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Roger Deakins

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Dante Ferretti

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Melissa Mathison

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Tencho Gyalpo

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Robert Lin

Self

Losang Samten

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Martin Scorsese

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Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin

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Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong

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Jigme Tsarong

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