The Cup (1999 film)

• Ugyen Tobgyal: Geko
• Neten Chokling: Lodo
• Jamyang Lodro: Ugyen
• Lama Chonjor Abbot
• Godu Lama: Lama Age
• Thinley Nudi: Tibetan layman

Game of the Gods - The Buddha discovered the football ( Tibetan Phörpa, English The Cup ) is a feature film by the Bhutanese monk and director Khyentse Norbu. It was created in 1999, based on a strange yet true story. The film was the first that has been produced by the Kingdom of Bhutan. The production was shot in Bir (India).

Action

The story takes place in summer 1998 in a Buddhist monastery in northern India, at the time, as in France, the World Cup will be held in 1998. While, once again, two young men (uncle and nephew ) have fled Tibet and reached the monastery to study there and become monks, the cheeky Ugyen puts the whole community of monks on with his football fever. His room he decorated with football images and under his robe he wears an impromptu jersey Ronaldo. Since it is forbidden to him and his friends to sneak out at night to the monastery to watch the games in the village, Ugyen must come up with something. After he was old and melancholy abbot, the football is explained as a struggle between two countries to convince a ball, he collects money for the rent of a television set. When he releases the clock, the only possession of the new arrivals from Tibet, the Indian lender as a pledge, steals him despite the exciting final game, a bad conscience.

Reviews

" A colorful film that playfully shows a thoroughly worldly facet of introverted Buddhism and how the way is about the spiritual challenges of the young monks. "