Four young men file into a conference room in downtown Rangoon, dressed in 1940’s military uniform, and stand in front of a panel of Burma’s top cultural figures. Some of the panel members have recently been released from prison — among them is democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The grilling they now give the young men is the culmination of a four-and-a-half month process to choose the lead for a film that, just a few years ago, would have seemed beyond belief: a big-budget feature, produced by Aung San Suu Kyi, about her revolutionary father, General Aung San.
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