Indochina Mon Amour tells about the fasChination that Asia exerts on a fifty years old western man who is through the crisis of values where the western societies are fallen. He leaves alone and for the first time for the Asian continent. He decides instinctively to travel as much as possible far away from the tourist routes of Thailand and Laos, heading for the stateless tribes of the Golden Triangle. It is almost an attempt to go back in time, using the local media of communication, in order to penetrate as deep as possible in the real conditions of local people’s daily life. The point of view can only be a bird’s-eye view, that reports the impact and the violent emotions the different oriental philosophy of life and the different assignment of the so called primary values of life, give rise in him.

Screenplay Claudio Frosi
Photography (colour) Claudio Frosi
Editing Claudio Frosi
Production Il Pantano
Year of production 2005
Running time 28’
Format Mini DV

Claudio Frosi

The theatre director, born 1951 in Rome, founded 1972 his own theatre company, which is still performing. With this company he put on the stage many Italyn an foreigner scripts and organic projects, like Tempo di cavallette, a rediscovery and new propose of Ezio D’Errico’s work, the painter and dramatist of the absurd, on the Italyn stages. With Progetto Scandinavia he put on the stage- for the first time in Italy - some of the living Scandinavian dramatists. 2001-2002 he performed Gianni Guardagli’s Le luci di Algeri, awarded with the Flaiano 2000 First Prize, a piece forestalling the events of 11. September in New York. Indochina Mon Amour is his first documentary to be shot in Asia.