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Cast a Dark Shadow is a 1955 British suspense film noir directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by John Cresswell, based on the 1952 play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green. [2] It stars Dirk Bogarde , Margaret Lockwood , Kay Walsh , Kathleen Harrison and Robert Flemyng .
The film opened with the title "Burma Film Presents: Love and Liquor" but there were no credits or mention of the cast. It was based on a story by P Moe Nin about how gambling and alcohol destroyed a man's life. [5] The day the film premiered, 13 October 1920, is commemorated annually as the Myanmar Movie Day.
Myanmar is known by a name deriving from Burma as opposed to Myanmar in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek – Birmania being the local version of Burma in both Italian and Spanish, Birmânia in Portuguese, and Birmanie in French. [32] As in the past, French-language media today consistently use Birmanie. [33] [34]
Trade between China and Myanmar was nearly non-existent prior to 1988. [67] After the imposition of international economic sanctions in 1988, Myanmar-China trade grew 25% year-to-year until 1995, with some decline following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. [67] A sub-pumping station of Sino-Myanmar pipelines in Longling County, Yunnan Province
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million.
An ethnolinguistic map of Myanmar from 1972. Similar to the concepts of pribumi in Indonesia and bumiputera in Malaysia, Burmese society categorises indigenous peoples who had historically lived in what is now modern-day Myanmar as taing-yin-tha (တိုင်းရင်းသား), [22] which is typically translated as 'national race' or 'indigenous race.'
The film is packed with Poor Folk (2012) and Ice Poison (2014) by the distributor as the director’s "Homecoming Trilogy." [3] The other two films of the trilogy depict the lives of illegal immigrants of Chinese ethnicity on the border of Myanmar. Return to Burma is the first feature film in history to be shot and completed in Myanmar (Burma). [4]
Burma Rani (Queen of Burma) (1945) - Indian WWII spy film by T. R. Sundaram, set during the Burma Campaign and starring K. L. V. Vasantha in the lead role of the female spy; Burma Victory (1945) - British film; En Magan (1945) - Indian WWII film by R. S. Mani, set during the Burma Campaign and based on the play Waterloo Bridge by Robert E. Sherwood