Our Burmese Days
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lindsey Merrison
Sally Merrison
William Franklin
U Kyaw Sein
U Aung Gyi
Lars Barthel
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Synopsis
U.K.-born director Lindsey Merrison spent the first half of her life not even knowing that her mother, Sally, was Anglo-Burmese. Speaking in impeccable English, and claiming she came from Hemel Hempstead (a byword for white, middle-class respectability northwest of London), the latter never referred to the country she left in the early '50s. Merrison's documentary takes her mom and her uncle Bill on a trip back to Burma for the first time in roughly 40 years, revisiting sites from their youth, some of which are largely changed.
Director
Lindsey Merrison
Film Details
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
The film's title is a reference to the novel "Burmese Days" by George Orwell who worked for a while in the country's colonial police force.
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Forum) February 15-26, 1996
Shown at Boston Film Festival September 6-19, 1996.
Shown at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York City (Walter Reade) June 12-27, 1996.
Super-16mm
b&w and color
