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The Cup

Phörpa

Bhutan, Australia

1999

93 Min
Color
1.85:1
Hindi, Tibetan
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DIR Khyentse Norbu

EXEC Hooman Majd, Jeremy Thomas

PROD Raymond Steiner, Malcolm Watson

SCR Khyentse Norbu

DP Paul Warren

CAST Neten Chokling, Orgyen Tobgyal, Jamyang Lodro, Lama Chonjor, Lama Godhi, Kunsang Nyima, Pema Tshundup

ED John Scott

PROD DES Raymond Steiner

MUSIC Douglas Mills

SOUND Bronwyn Murphy

Synopsis

While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha in a rapidly changing world. —IMDb

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