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Arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959, Palden Gyatso spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for the "crime" of peaceful demonstration. Tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor, he watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed. The film covers Palden's birth in 1933, and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the Chinese invasion. It explores the escalating cycle of interrogation and physical violation that ended decades later with Palden's escape from Tibet and a cathartic meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India.
StarringDirected byMakoto SasaProducer(s)Makoto Sasa, Jim Browne, Vladan NikolicRatingRuntimeGenreNot Rated75 min.Documentary
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