Leper

Resource Information

The work Leper represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Leper

Statement of responsibility

a film by Ellen Bruno ; produced and directed by Ellen Bruno

Title variation

• Leper, life beyond stigma
• Leper, life beyond stigmata

Contributor

• Film Library (Firm)
• Bruno, Ellen
• Sakya, Sapana

Subject

• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Interviews
• Leprosy
• Leprosy -- Nepal
• Leprosy -- Patients
• Leprosy -- Patients -- Interviews
• Leprosy -- Patients -- Nepal -- Social conditions
• Leprosy -- Patients | Social conditions
• Nepal
• Nonfiction films
• Nonfiction films
• Social isolation
• Social isolation -- Nepal

Genre

• Documentary films
• Feature films
• Interviews
• Nonfiction films

Language

• nep
• eng
• nep
• nep

Summary

"Provides a rare and intimate glimpse into a contemporary society of lepers in a remote village in Nepal. Villagers speak openly and emotionally about their relationship to their sickness, to the 'healthy' community outside the village boundaries, and the myriad stigmas and misunderstandings which surround a disease that has marked their bodies and their lives. The villagers speak eloquently of how, after much struggle and hardship, they build new lives for themselves, recreating family and community in the context of this disease. Their poignant and revealing stories offer heartfelt reflections on societal fears and aversions to sickness, bodily differences, and death"--Container

Cataloging source

MOR

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Translation, Sapana Sakya

Language note

In Nepali with English subtitles in yellow

LC call number

RA644.L3

LC item number

L47 2005

Runtime

23

Technique

live action