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Kundun
Drama, History
From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to visually sumptuous historical dramas about spiritual formation, cultural resistance, and the burden of leadership.
- Tone
- contemplative, epic, melancholic
- Payoff
- wonder, reflection
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- spiritual leadership, cultural survival, political oppression, exile, faith
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, Himalayan monasteries and occupied highlands