Tea-Horse Road Series: Delamu (2004)

Name: Tea-Horse Road Series: Delamu
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2004-04-13

1h 50m

Running Time

Plot.

This film is a record of the Tea-Horse Road, the caravans of the Nujiang River Valley, and the aboriginal peoples who live there -- Mm. Ding who has a family with 15 members speaking 6 languages, a pastor who was jailed for 15 years for his believing, a 104 years old lady who walks through 3 centuries, a village head whose wife run away, a caravan who shares one wife with his elder brother, a young lama in the Buddhist temple who feels lonely sometimes, a 82 years old caravan leader whose story is a legend of the Tibetan caravans¡ Written by BDI Films Inc.

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Cast & Crew.

Tian Zhuangzhuang

Director

Wang Kuirong

Actor

Hao Lee

Producer

Wang Yu

Director of Photography

Li Zhao

Composer

Jiang Wu

Cinematographer

Details.

Release Date
April 13, 2004

Original Name
德拉姆

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 50m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-13

Wiki.

Delamu (simplified Chinese: 茶马古道：德拉姆; traditional Chinese: 茶馬古道：德拉姆; pinyin: Cha ma gudao: de la mu) is a 2004 documentary film directed by Fifth Generation Chinese filmmaker, Tian Zhuangzhuang. Delamu documents the people living in the Nujiang River Valley, along the Tea Horse Road, an ancient trade route between China's Yunnan province and Tibet. The film was jointly produced by companies in the People's Republic of China, and Japan. It had its American premier at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

The title "Delamu" refers to the Tibetan word for "peaceful angel", and the name of one of the mules owned by a villager in the film.