誓不为奴

In Never Shall We Be Enslaved, award winning director Kyi Soe Tun focuses a Burmese lens on events at the end of the Burmese Kingdom and the beginning of British rule in the late 1880s. Britain has control of India and most of Burma, but the last monarch tries to postpone the inevitable by concessions to British interests and by attempting to play the French against their colonial rivals. In the war torn atmosphere of this end game war, a Bamar commander falls in love with a Shan princess, although their peoples traditionally are enemies. The British have tricked the Bamar by not revealing that their choice for prince, Nyang Yang, has been dead for a year. When they learn of this deception, the Bamar join forces with the Shan and other ethnic groups under the last ruler King Thibaw. When the British demand submission, the final battle is joined against the forces of General Prendergast. Will the nationalists be able to defeat him, or must they continue the resistance as guerrillas?