
Acting
Aung San Suu Kyi
Born
1945-06-19 (81)
Place of birth
Rangoon, Burma
Known for
Acting
Credits
11 titles
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Myanmar politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. A co-founder and longtime leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), she spent many years under house arrest during Myanmar’s former military dictatorship. She later served as State Counsellor and foreign minister from 2016 to 2021, becoming the country’s de facto civilian leader. Her international reputation was subsequently damaged by criticism of her government’s response to the military’s persecution of the Rohingya. In Myanmar’s November 2020 general election, the NLD won an overwhelming parliamentary majority. The military alleged widespread electoral fraud, but Myanmar’s election commission said there wa…
Known for
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Morgenmagazin
1992
6.5An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.
Dispatches
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Gone with the Wind
2014
10.0This acclaimed documentary explores the revolutionary movement fighting for democracy in Burma and depicts how young people, in particular, are affected by the human rights abuses of Burma’s military government. Burma Diary focuses on the story of Tint Aung, a young Burmese man who was actively involved in the protest movement while in college. He is forced to flee from his home and take refuge in the jungles of the Burmese-Thailand border along with his wife and his two young daughters. As the film chronicles four harsh years of Tint Aung’s struggle to survive, it provides a passionate and at times heartbreaking study of the hopes of and the obstacles facing the Burmese democracy movement.
Burma Diary
1997
7.3Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country.
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
2008
7.0In times of rampant populism and increasing distrust of the elite, the filmmaker accompanies the 81-year-old founder of the controversial World Economic Forum over the period of one year in his efforts to implement his leitmotif: to improve the state of the world. Can the WEF contribute to solving global problems? Or is it rather an integral part of the problem?
The Forum
2019
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRAfter the military coup in 2021, Kyaw Kyaw and his friends could no longer safely live in the city, so they took refuge with the armed resistance force and decided to continue their revolutionary journey to the very end.
Still, We Smile
2025
NRExploring the life of Aung San Suu Kyi. After 15 years of house arrest in Myanmar, she was celebrated as an icon of democracy, but ten years on, she is seen by many as an international pariah.
Aung San Suu Kyi: The Fall of an Icon
2020
2010s · 4 titles
7.0In times of rampant populism and increasing distrust of the elite, the filmmaker accompanies the 81-year-old founder of the controversial World Economic Forum over the period of one year in his efforts to implement his leitmotif: to improve the state of the world. Can the WEF contribute to solving global problems? Or is it rather an integral part of the problem?
The Forum
2019
In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.
Burma: A Human Tragedy
2012
NRBono and others in a major Dublin, city wide event in honor of revered human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
5.8We know Aung San Suu Kyi as "a golden bird in a cage"; she is a valuable icon representing freedom and democracy of which the suppressed population of Burma project much hope for. In the West she stands out as a symbol of peace and reconciliation. She has been awarded countless prizes for her effort, among them the Nobel Peace Prize. But who is the person and woman behind it all? The Military Dictatorship has on several occasions offered her the opportunity to leave the country. But why does Aung San Suu Kyi voluntarily choose to stay in her captivity instead of going into exile? Lady of No Fear offers a strong and fascinating glimpse into Aung San Suu Kyis life and portrays some of the consequences her freedom struggle has had, not only for her, but also for her closest friends and family indeed.
Aung San Suu Kyi: Lady of No Fear
2010
