<![CDATA[A #cinema #documentary #anthropology question:]]>A question:

Years ago I saw a low-budget doc about anthropologists visiting Zanskar 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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Anytime you need a old person, just let me know. 🤣

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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://www.youtube.com/live/CyyL0yDhr7I?si=_bXEYFaBYurKXd_b

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https://emro.libraries.psu.edu/record/index.php?id=979

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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.

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