Kundun

Kundun (1997)

Timing: 2:14 (134 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1997-12-25

Country

France, Morocco, United States, United Kingdom, Monaco

Production

Touchstone Pictures, StudioCanal, Dune Films, De Fina-Cappa, Cappa Productions, Cappa/De Fina Productions, AMLF

Genre

Drama, History

Budget

$28 000 000

Revenue

$5 684 789

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Director

Martin Scorsese

Actors

Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Tencho Gyalpo, Tsewang Migyur Khangsar, Gyurme Tethong, Robert Lin, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang, Tenzin Topjar, Tenzin Lodoe, Geshi Yeshi Gyatso
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Scenario

Producer

Barbara De Fina, Laura Fattori

Operator

Roger Deakins

Composer

Philip Glass

Artist

Audition

Ellen Lewis, Adil Abdelwahab, Ahmed Abounouom

Editing

Thelma Schoonmaker
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• The film's screenplay was written by Melissa Mathison, Harrison Ford's ex-wife and the author of the famous Spielberg film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", and all the roles in the film were played by non-professional actors.
• After the release of the film, Scorsese was placed on a "blacklist" of people prohibited from entering China.
• The roles of the Dalai Lama and members of his family were played by relatives of the Dalai Lama himself, who live in exile in Dharamsala (a city in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh) and abroad. Adult Dalai Lama was played by Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, who is the Dalai Lama's great-nephew.
• Due to the impossibility of filming in Tibet, the shooting was organized in Morocco.
• According to director Martin Scorsese, to film scenes with children, a toy house had to be built around the camera so that the children would look where the filmmakers needed them to.
• Cinematographer Roger Deakins believed that Martin Scorsese was hiring him for some documentary project; considering that he had to work with actors who were not actors in the literal sense, he perfectly understood when a scene was played as required and it was possible to move on to filming the next one.
• The screenplay for the film was written by Melissa Mathison, Harrison Ford's ex-wife and the author of the famous Spielberg film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," and all the roles in the film were played by non-professional actors.
• After the film's release, Scorsese was placed on a "blacklist" of people banned from traveling to China.