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Samsara (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
138 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
India ( India, Eastern Asia )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Nalin Pan

Written By:
Tim Baker
Nalin Pan (screenplay)

Actors:
Shawn Ku ..... Tashi
Christy Chung ..... Pema
Neelesha BaVora ..... Sujata
Lhakpa Tsering ..... Dawa
Tenzin Tashi ..... Karma
Jamayang Jinpa ..... Sonam
Sherab Sangey ..... Apo
Kelsang Tashi ..... Jamayang
Tsepak Tsangpo ..... Chen Tulku

Synopsis:

Indian born filmmaker Pan Nalin makes his directorial debut with this sensual, elegant look at sex and spirituality. Tashi (Shawn Ku) is a gifted young monk who is just completing three years of solitary mediation in the mountains. Sporting long hair and a scraggly beard, Tashi is roused out of his deep mediation and brought back to his monastery by his fellow monks. There he rests up to recover his strength, returning to the usual rigors of monastic life. Though he is highly revered for having attained a profound level of enlightenment, Tashi is surprised to discover the sudden awakening of his own sex drive. While blessing the annual crop, he encounters beautiful peasant girl Pema (Christy Chung) and immediately he falls in love. Arguing that to properly renounce the world he would have to experience it first, he leaves his order and eventually marries Pema. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.

A spiritual love story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, in the Himalayas, Samsara is a quest: one man's struggle to find spiritual enlightenment. A caravan of Lamas journey across the mountains, on a mission to return a brilliant young monk named Tashi (Shawn Ku) to his ancient monastery, after three years of solitary meditation. Brought out of a deep trance, Tashi unexpectedly experiences a profound sexual awakening, and falls in love with Pema (Christy Chung), a beautiful young woman. Tashi, questioning the spiritual values of his monastic existence marries Pema quitting the monastry, for the promise of Samsara, the world. Together they discover the bliss of sexual union and the joys and sorrows of possession. But Tashi is unprepared for other aspects of everyday life and he realises that life in Samsara is far more complex than he ever imagined But his destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending.

Tashi has been raised as a Buddhist monk since age five. When he gets erotic phantasms as an adolescent, his spiritual master decides it's time to taste profane life, sending him on a journey in the real Himalayan world. Once he is told his hottest dream was real, Tashi decides to leave the monastery and marries Pema, the daughter of a rich farmer, who was actually engaged with local stone-mason Jamayang. The ex-lama soon becomes a rich land-owner himself, and makes a killing from his harvest by bringing it to the city instead of selling at half price to the local merchant Dewa, but half of his next harvest perishes in a fire, yet he comes trough and raises a bright son, Karma. After committing infidelity, contemplated for years, and as he later hears from the promiscuous Indian labourer girl, Tashi reconsiders his life...

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 11 August, 2008.

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