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Antonythasan Jesuthasan [on Dheepan]

Novelist and actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan discusses his childhood years in Sri Lanka and his activities as a Tamil Tiger until the end of 1986, his exit of the military movement and his decision to flee Sri Lanka after the Indian Army became involved in the conflict, the years he spent in Thailand as a refugee, his arrival in France in the early 1990s, his contribution to DHEEPAN (2015), etc. The interview was conducted by Robert Fischer exclusively for Criterion in Paris in early 2017.

PUBLISHED ON THE FOLLOWING DVDS:

Dheepan (Criterion: Blu-ray)
Dheepan (Criterion: DVD)