teledyn ð“‚€1d ago

A #cinema #documentary #anthropology question:

Years ago I saw a low-budget doc about anthropologists visiting Zanskar #Tibet before the first Chinese road arrived. They interviewed the king, a doctor, and a kind elder who only wanted to talk gossip and kept refilling their barley beers.

Today all I can find by Search are glowing big-budget praises of China in Tibet.

Does anyone else recall that earlier doc?

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@teledyn
Zanskar is in India,
Look for these:
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom (1990's)

Zanskar, the Last Place on Earth (1980)

The Works of Marianne Chaud (2008–2010)

Drop Tibet and China in your search. Look at:
Zanskar documentary Michel Peissel 1980
or
anthropologist documentary Mustang kingdom

See if that helps find what you are looking for.

Show threadteledyn ð“‚€1d ago

@sflorg

The bbc seems the likely candidate, a thousand thanks for overruling my memory! 😅

I have spent 35 years, apparently, in envious awe of their doctor's vocation: doctors are never paid, they roam village to village where every need they may have is graciously accommodated.

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b7a1f393ad334df9bd920607ba2e1e55

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@teledyn
Anytime you need a old person, just let me know. 🤣
Show threadteledyn ð“‚€1d ago
@sflorg you wouldn't also maybe recall the French New Wave film with the scene where the couple try to buy a getaway car with cash, the dealer throws them out of his shop for trying to use cash, and moments later robs them?
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@teledyn
Damn that sounds familiar—let me think on it some.
Though if you want to know the original flavor of a Twinkie, I know that—banana
Apr 10 at 5:36pmWeb
Show threadteledyn ð“‚€1d ago

@sflorg

damn. If only I'd known that yesterday when it came up in conversation 😅