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Released
2003 · FILM

Travelers and Magicians

The bitter and the sweet of temporary things.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
108 min
Language
DZ
AdventureDrama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the one bus out of town to Thimphu, however, and is forced to hitchhike and walk along the Lateral Road to the west, accompanied by an apple seller, a Buddhist monk with his ornate, dragon-headed dramyin, a drunk, a widowed rice paper maker, and his beautiful daughter, Sonam.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Andrew MccormickShot by Alan KozlowskiScored by Dechen DorjeeDesigned by Raymond Steiner

Also known as

  • Von Reisenden und Magiernde
  • Chang hub thengs gcig gi 'khrul snangdz
  • Travellers and Magiciansen
  • Viajeros y magoses
  • Voyageurs et Magiciensfr

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