Top billed cast

1. 

   Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong

   Dalai Lama (Adult)

2. 

   Tencho Gyalpo

   Mother

3. 

   Tsewang Migyur Khangsar

   Father

4. 

   Gyurme Tethong

   Dalai Lama (Age 12)

5. 

   Robert Lin

   Chairman Mao

6. 

   Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin

   Dalai Lama (Age 5)

7. 

   Tenzin Yeshi Paichang

   Dalai Lama (Aged 2)

8. 

   Tenzin Topjar

   Lobsang (5-10)

9. 

   Tenzin Lodoe

   Takster

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-09-06

If anyone were ever to question the undoubted skill of cinematographer Roger Deakins, then they need only watch this beautifully crafted story of the youth of the 14th Dalai Lama. Filmed in the Moroccan Atlas mountains, for obvious reasons, Martin Scorsese provides us with a lavish, colourful and thought-provoking postulation on just how this young man was selected, after a four year search, to become the venerated spiritual leader of a peaceful nation of farmers and monks, buried deep in the Himalaya mountains. The boy was but two, but already there was a fear amongst these folks for whom tim...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$28,000,000.00

Revenue
$5,684,789.00

Keywords

• china
• buddhism
• buddhist monk
• mountain
• tibet
• lhasa
• buddha