Aung San Suu Kyi

Acting

Aung San Suu Kyi

Born

1945-06-19 (81)

Place of birth

Rangoon, Burma

Known for

Acting

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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…

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Morgenmagazin poster
5.3

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Morgenmagazin

1992

Dispatches poster
6.5

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

Dispatches

1987

Gone with the Wind poster
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Gone with the Wind

2014

Burma Diary poster
10.0

This 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

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country poster
7.3

Going 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

The Forum poster
7.0

In 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

2010s · 4 titles

The Forum poster
7.0

In 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

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7.0

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

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said poster
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Bono 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

Aung San Suu Kyi: Lady of No Fear poster
5.8

We 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

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