This Prison Where I Live (2010)

This Prison Where I Live plot

"Zwei Männer, durch Comedy vereint, durch Unterdrückung getrennt."

The wildly popular Burmese film star and comedian Zarganar was sentenced to 59 years in prison in 2008 (later reduced to 35 years) for continuing to criticize the regime in Burma. Rex Bloomstein clandestinely filmed him shortly before. Zarganar, who calls himself the 'speaker' of his people, was forbidden to act or talk to the media. On that occasion, this cheerfully joking man tells Bloomstein about the way in which he once survived five years of solitary confinement. No one seemed interested in the footage, until Bloomstein was unexpectedly approached by young German stand-up comedian Michael Mittermeier who would like to be Zarganar's 'speaker'. Bloomstein and Mittermeier return to Burma to search for traces of this courageous political satirist. It will be a frustrating journey, because under the military dictatorship nobody dares to speak in front of the camera.

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