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The Road to Mandalay

The Road to Mandalay

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 9, 2016

Runtime

1h 48m

Genres

Drama

User Score

70%

Original Title

再見瓦城

Production Companies

Star Ritz Productions, CMC Entertainment, Flash Forward Entertainment, Bombay Berlin Film Productions, Fine Time Entertainment, Myanmar Montage Films, Pop Pictures, Seashore Image Production, House on Fire, CNC

Director

Midi Z

Description

The human traffickers have a well-established route: from Burma into Thailand across the Mekong River at Tchilek, along quiet country roads, passing bribed police checkpoints and into Bangkok, where the illegal migrants are on their own. Lianqing is one of five illegals who travels this route one summer night in 2013; along the way a fellow migrant called Guo is kind to her, and their fates later become entwined. Once in Thailand, Lianqing finds ‘underground’ jobs, saves money and finds out where to buy fake identity papers with the hope of making it to Taiwan. But Guo has different ambitions…