IDFA Bertha Fund 2012
Who Will Be a Gurkha
Who Will Be a Gurkha
Kesang Tseten Lama, Kesang Tseten Lama
Nepal, England, Norway, Finland
The Gurkhas began soldiering for the British colony in India 200 years ago, following a war in which the Nepalis tested British might in India.
Today’s potential recruits are not rustic hill boys but a new generation of urban based Nepalis with a school or higher education, lured by wages equaling British soldiers now, undergoing grueling tests. Selection also means partaking of the myth and glamour of the Gurkhas, adventure and danger, in spite of the very real prospect of dying in battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Genesis Films,
Taskovski Films
Genesis Films,
Taskovski Films
Executive producer
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