Shangri-La (Paradise Under Construction)
MovieTitle | Shangri-La (Paradise Under Construction) |
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Release date | Jan 12, 2023 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Mirka Duijn , Nina Spiering |
Production country | Netherlands, Sweden |
Run time | 94 min. |
Does Shangri-La really exist? Mirka Duijn goes in search of the answer in this travelogue-cum-investigation. She travels to the mountains of Tibetan China and digs into the archives to unravel the history of this mythical place. At first sight, the answer is obvious: British author James Hilton invented Shangri-La for his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, in which four characters crash land in the Kunlun Mountains and later find a magnificent monastery—a paradise on earth.