Soul on a String

Soul on a String (Tibetan: རྒྱུད་སྐུད་སྟེང་གི་རྣམ་ཤེས) is a 2016 Chinese Tibetan-language adventure film directed by Zhang Yang and co-written by Zhang Yang and Tashi Dawa, based on Tashi Dawa's short stories "Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord" and "On the Road to Lhasa" (去拉萨的路上). It stars Kimba, Choenyi Tsering, Siano Dudiom Zahi, and Yixi Danzeng. The film premiered at the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival on June 15, 2016, and opened in China on August 18, 2017.

Plot

Tabei (塔贝) is a hunter who had killed countless animals. While hunting a deer, he is killed by lightning. But it isn't long before that he is saved by the Gautama Buddha, who orders him to escort a treasure to a holy land of Tibetan place named "Zhangwendi" (掌纹地).

Cast

• Kalsang Jinpa as Tabei, a hunter
• Choenyi Tsering as Chung, a beautiful and lonely shepherdess who is pregnant with Tabei's child
• Siano Dudiom Zahi as Zhandui, elder brother of Guori, who wants to find Tabei for revenge
• Yixi Danzeng as Pu, a mute and Tabei's attendant.
• Genden Phuntsok as Guori
• Sonam Nyima
• Sonam Wangmo as bosslady

Production

Madeng Film Limited Company and Lichenguang International Cultural Media Limited Company purchased the film rights. The script for the film was finished in 2007 written by Tashi Dawa. The film was wrapped in 2014.

Most of the film was shot on location in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Release

The film premiered in 19th Shanghai International Film Festival on June 15, 2016, with wide-release in China on August 18, 2017.

Accolades

External links

• at IMDb
• at Douban (in Chinese)
• at Mtime.com (archived) (in Chinese)