Shangri-La (Paradise Under Construction) (movie)
- Production country: Netherlands, Sweden
- Producer: Mirka Duijn , Nina Spiering
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/12/2023
- Run time: 94 min.
Movie description
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.