Kundun

“The destiny of a people lies in the heart of a boy.”

In Tibet, a two-year-old boy from a farming family is named the fourteenth Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of his country. Martin Scorsese follows him from childhood to adulthood, with Gyurme Tethong playing him at twelve and Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong as the grown man. By then Chinese forces, led by Chairman Mao (Robert Lin), are pressing in on Tibet, and he must hold his people together.