WHEN THE DRAGON SWALLOWED THE SUN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Product Description Why hasn't Tibet been freed? Who is keeping the movement from goingforward? From director Dirk Simon, When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun isa groundbreaking documentary that examines these questions in a questto understand why the world is still dealing with unsettled issues likethe Tibetan cause and what can really be done to eradicate them. Seven years in the making, When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun is thefirst inside look at the Tibetan movement to free Tibet from Chineseoccupation, its internal conflicts and contradictions. The combinationof full HD footage from India, China, Tibet and the US along with aprologue narrated by Dennis Haysbert and an original soundtrack byPhilip Glass, Thom Yorke and Damien Rice make this the first film thatpresents the complexity of the struggle with such emotional impact. Thefilm features Richard Gere, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the 14th DalaiLama, the newly crowned 18th descendant of the Great Religious Kings ofTibet, some of the most prominent Chinese contemporary artists, and allthe key figures of the exiled Tibetan freedom movement and theirfollowers