This Prison Where I Live
Director Rex Bloomstein
Countries United Kingdom, Germany
Duration 91 min
Synopsis
This is a film about two comedians. Zarganar is Burma’s greatest living comic. Relentlessly victimised by the my military junta, he is now in prison for 35 years – silenced for his outspoken criticism of the ruling generals. Michael Mittermeier, in stark contrast, is free to practise as one of dey’s leading stand up comedians. Two men joined by comedy and separated by repression. Together with film maker Rex Bloomstein, who filmed with Zarganar in 2007, Michael travels secretly to Burma in 2010 to document this courageous man’s struggle against repression and to investigate humour under dictatorship.
This is a film about two comedians. Zarganar is Burma’s greatest living comic. Relentlessly victimised by the my military junta, he is now in prison for 35 years – silenced for his outspoken criticism of the ruling generals. Michael Mittermeier, in stark contrast, is free to practise as one of dey’s leading stand up comedians. Two men joined by comedy and separated by repression. Together with film maker Rex Bloomstein, who filmed with Zarganar in 2007, Michael travels secretly to Burma in 2010 to document this courageous man’s struggle against repression and to investigate humour under dictatorship.