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Films
found one film
with a digital version available
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Region
“South-East Asia”
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Keywords
“Health Health care Healing”
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Directors
“Nguyen, M. Trinh”
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Year of production
“1998”
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Status
“A”
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films with a digital version
1
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Region
South-East Asia
1
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Country
Vietnam
1
Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
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Directors
Nguyen, M. Trinh
1
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Series
not set
1
Country of production
United States
1
Year of production
1998
1
x
Status
Film
Tigers Apprentice
1998
57
‘
Directed by
M. Trinh Nguyen
.
Tiger’s Apprentice is the story of M. Trinh Nguyen’s journey to her native Vietnam. She observes and documents her great-uncle’s folk medicine practices treating many patients and making his medicines for tumours, leprosy, and infections. She also seeks out people cured by her great-uncle, talks to local doctors and herbalists, battle Vietnamese government censors fearful her footage might make them seem backward to the Western world, and ultimately realises that through her investigation she has unwittingly begun to apprentice.
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany