Feature film
Boycotter
ဘွိုင်ကော့တာ
U Nu · 1937
Synopsis
The film deals with the Burmese students' struggle for independence, and it is their leaders who play in it: the student leader who wrote and co-directed it takes a part, alongside Aung San and Htun Ohn, with U Raschid, Tin Swe, Hla Maung Gyi and May May Win. Its title, borrowed from English, designates the one who boycotts. The details of the plot are not described in the histories of Burmese cinema.
Context
The film was released on 18 September 1937, produced by British Burma Films and co-directed by Ba Zin. The colonial censors, who had banned a film with a nationalist title in 1936 and refused cinemas that same year to a film about the fall of the last king, allowed it to be shown. The screenplay is by U Nu himself, and the film comes a year after the strike of February 1936, which arose from his expulsion from the university.
Who it is for
A sound film in Burmese; no known French release. It helps to know about the 1936 student strike in Rangoon.
Prizes and reception
Remembered by the history of Burmese cinema as the political film in which, before independence, those who were to lead the country were seen acting.
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