Kundun
Scorsese's film of the life of the 14th Dalai Lama.
Kundun is a 1997 biographical film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Melissa Mathison. It is based on the life and writings of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Kundun, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet.
The adult Dalai Lama is played by his grandnephew Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, and his niece Tencho Gyalpo plays his mother.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Producer
- Barbara De Fina
- Writer
- Melissa Mathison
- Starring
- Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
- Gyurme Tethong
- Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin
- Tenzin Yeshi Paichang
- Music
- Philip Glass
- Cinematography
- Roger Deakins
- Editing
- Thelma Schoonmaker
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures
- Cappa Productions
- De Fina Productions
Facts from the source article.
Background
The film greatly angered the Chinese government, which objected to its content and threatened to shut its distributor, Disney, out of the Chinese market. Disney apologised and limited the film's distribution.
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