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HANDSHAKE – sometimes kisses
Interviews in Yazd, Abjaneh, Shiraz, Esfahan with people in parks, by the roadside, in aHenna factory, meeting them by chance without prior notice or appointment, no permission asked. They responded spontaneously, on the spot to questions about intimacies of private live. There was total openness, no hesitation ...

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Lieber Jürg
ich bin absolut fasziniert von Deinem Georgienfilm. Unvorstellbares kommt so nah.
Herzlichen Dank
Ruth
04/01/2010

Weiter so eindrückliche Filme wie dieser aus Georgien
Urs
02/01/2010
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HAIDER ABDELSHAFI, 1919-2007, “Peace not during my Lifetime“, his last interview with Jürg Da Vaz and Weltwoche correspondent Pierre Heumann at his office in Gaza City, 4 May 2005. ...

MAO's Barbershop
Shot on site at the Dong and Miau minorities, Guanxi province, South China. ...

В документальноме фильме «ЗАВЕЩАНИЕ» историю фотографа ЕВГЕНИЯ БУРАКА рассказывают более 250 чёрно-белых фотографий, множество предметов его переполненной квартиры в Смоленске, где ему никогда не хватает времени навести порядок. «Ненавижу время… ненавижу порядок», - говорит он… Но это не только биография. Исторические фотографии времен СССР с короткими комментариями на ломаном немецком ...

Der Dokumentarfilm DAS TESTAMENT erzählt die persönliche Geschichte des Fotographen YEVGENYI BURAK in über 250 schwarz-weiss und einer Farbfoto sowie vielen Gegenständen in seiner überfüllten Wohnung in einem Mehrfamilienhaus in Smolensk, Russland, in welcher er keine Zeit findet, um in seinem Reichtum Ordnung zu schaffen. Er sagt: Ich hasse Zeit... ...

1957 Wang Guangyi was born in Harbin, China. He lives and works in Beijing, China.
The paintings - but specially his sculptures – are revolutionary acts of ideological and historical dimensions belonging to the category of Political Pop reminding us of the dominance that the Maoist regime held over daily ...

Von: Verena Hoch
Datum: 3. Oktober 2008 17:00:11 GMT+02:00
An:
Betreff: Chador and Condom....

Ciao Jürg,

Dein Film über den Iran CHADOR, CONDOM, COFFEESHOP hat mich schwer beeindruckt! Es war richtig erfrischend  zu sehen wie normal und freundlich die Leute in diesem Land sind. Obwohl man weiss, dass im Grunde alle Menschen auf ...

Postkarte aus dem Iran
May 20, 2008 by Jürg Da Vaz

Wir haben an jeder Ecke Gesprächspartner gefunden. Die Menschen sind auf uns zugekommen, alle hatten eine Botschaft, eine Mitteilung aus ihrem Leben. Sie hatten nichts dagegen, dass ich die Interviews aufgenommen habe, ganz im Gegenteil.
In Shiraz war gerade Kamenei auf Tournee, ...

ROZSAS FORRADALOM
2003. November 2. Grúziában parlamenti választásokat tartottak. A Legfelsöbb Biróság érvénytelenitette a Mihail Szaakasvili és pártja által megnyert választások végeredményét. November közepén nagy kormaányellenes tüntetések kezdödtek a föváros, Tbilizi központjában, valamint a föbb vidéki városokban. ...

THE ROSE REVOLUTION
On November 2, 2003, the Republic of Georgia held parliamentary elections which were grossly rigged. The Supreme Court invalidated the elections which the opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili claimed that he had won. ...

visiting TBILISI, a legend that drops its dour image, is like playing against your childhood memories. Classy as it once has been,the challenge of past and present offers an electrifying experience. ...

Huang Shan – Yellow Mountains,
located in the south of Anhui province, China.

More than 100 million years ago this mountainous area of 72 granite peaks was folded after an acute earth plate crashing.
It is said that you won't want to visit any other mountains in China after seeing Mt. Huang ...

35 Million Dollars in a Suitcase
21.12.2006 News Report

This month,Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas leader, tried to cross the Rafah border with $35 Million in cash raised during a 2-1/2 week tour of the region, including Iran.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was forced to leave the funds in an ...

Documentary, shot on site in Kamchatka, Russian Federation July 2005, 1h 54min 18sec, O! Kamchatka Again...a day has passed.. and you hold me in your arms. Again...ten years have passed... and I still feel your breadth on my skin. Unknown Soviet Scientist Documentary ...

Hallo lieber Jörg,
hab mich sehr gefreut über den kleinen TV-Disput. hat mir sehr gefallen, recht originell gemacht.
Liebe Grüße
Wolfgang. ...

6.January 2006 live show IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE with István Szábo, Hungarian Television m2, Budapest, Hungary ...

6.January 2006 live show IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE with István Szábo on Hungarian Television m2, Budapest, Hungary ...

Kamcsatka – Az eltűnt falu

Szinopszis
Az esős évszakban vágtunk neki Kamcsatka sűrű erdeinek. Akaratlanul is megpillant az utazó szeme egy helyet, ami a „Godot- ra várva” képet idézte elénk. A gond nem az volt, hogy Godot soha nem érkezett meg, épp az ellenkezője: a Kozeretskből jővő hivatalnokok azért ...

27.7.2005
Having arrived in Esso I told Sergey our driver to take us into the woods the next day. No arrangements were made and no people contacted to keep the trip as unprepared as possible. It was rainy season with moskitos in abundance as we made our way about 200km ...

Hamas - A hatalom megragadása Szinopszis 2006 január 25., 26., - 27., Gaza övezet, Palesztinai terület. Általános választások, Hamas hívők választási kampánya a gázai övezetben, szavazás és szavazatszámlálás a választás napján, interjúk. 2006 januárjában a Gáza övezetben jártunk a választások idején, így a kezdetekről, a hit világról, a Hamas megmozdulások ...

HAMAS - Rise to Power
Arabian language / English Subtitles
32:00
Shot on site in in the Gaza Strip

Synopsis
25./26./27.January 2006, Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories. General Election, Election Rallies of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, voting and vote countig on Election Day, Interviews.
As we participate in various ...

Hallo lieber Jürg,
habe mir Deinen Kamtschatka-Film angeschaut. Sehr gut die Geschichte rund um die Fischer, sehr emotional mit den Zeichnungen am Schluss vertieft.
Ausserordentlich gut die Musik.
Wolfgang

Synopsis
Fucking Good KAMCHATKA - a ballet for two poachers
Directed by Juerg Da Vaz

1000 miles from Kamchatsky-Petropavlovsk ...

Synopsis

Fucking Good KAMCHATKA - a ballet for two poachers
Directed by Juerg Da Vaz

1000 miles from Kamchatsky-Petropavlovsk in the deep forest of Kamchatka and 120 Miles away from Esso, the next village, we meet Ivan and Dima, the two poachers in their little hut. They takes ...

INTERVIEW DA VAZ - PETERFFY, Hungarian Television, m2, 28.11.2005 at 2035h-2130h ...

M'eat - eat meat - meet A SACRIFICE ...

HUMUS for HAMAS

Dokumentumfilm, Gáza-övezet 51'57"

A kicsiny Gáza-övezetben, a Földközi-tenger partján, több, mint egymillió ember él. Ezen a sűrűn lakott területen legtöbben palesztin menekülttáborokban, vagy olyan túlzsúfolt városokban laknak, mint Gáza, vagy Han-Júnisz. Az izraeliek kivonulása után a palesztinok többsége reménykedve tekint a jövőbe.
Jürg Da Vaz ...

Hello Jürg!
All of my family watched Humus film tonight on MTV m2. They enjoyed it very much. My older son (11) said, it was interesting for him, because now he knows how the Palestinians live. The younger son (6) wants to be Palestinian, because all the schoolboys have gun. ...

Jasmine and Olives - Welcome to Palestine!

“The vision for the future, the vision for our people is a two state solution, a fair two state solution, a fair deal on the refugee issue, which does not imply a massive comeback of millions of refugees to Israel proper but ...

Jasmine and Olives - Welcome to Palestine!

“The vision for the future, the vision for our people is a two state solution, a fair two state solution, a fair deal on the refugee issue, which does not imply a massive comeback of millions of refugees to Israel proper but ...

ITZHAK FREY & Mal'chik

Insight into the Soul of an Orthodox Jew

In 1873, orthodox Jews founded a new quarter not far away from the Old City of Jerusalem. Initially, 100 families lived there. They called the new neighbourhood “Mea Shearim”, which means “One Hundred Gates”. The name ...

Itzhak Frey és fia
Száz kapu
Rendezõ: Jürg Da Vaz
DA VAZ Productions. Eye Sharpener Works
Dokumentumfilm. Me’a She’arim, Izrael, 2005.
színes, 32:10, movie

Száz Kapu és egy pékség
1873-ban az ortodox zsidók az Óvárostól nem messze egy új negyedet alapítottak. Kezdetben mintegy száz család élt itt. A területet ...

Itzhak Frey and Son
A heartwarming interview with an elderly אויבערלענדישע איד אין מאה שערים
Includes nice footage of present-day Meah Sheorim

Dovid Frey introduces the documentarian to his elderly father, "the oldest cashier in the Middle East. R' Yitzchok Frey was the son HaRav Meir Yehuda Frei, Rov ...

From: friedrich glorian 20.12.2009
Hi Jürg Da Vaz!
friedrich glorian commented on your video "Itzhak Frey & Sohn":
"super gut gefilmt, zum schmunzeln. tolle doku..."


From: g. christian 11.05.2006
City: münchen
Country: deutschland
Text: durch Zufall bin ich über ihren Film Itzhak Frey and Sohn bei google gestolpert. ...

Hallo lieber Jürg,

habe heute mit großer Freude Dein Werk gesehen und muß Dir sagen, der Film gefällt mir sogar sehr gut.
Wie beneide ich Dich darum, Filme machen zu können, die ohne diese geforderten Infokommentare auskommen dürfen, bei denen ausschließlich die Stimmung von Situationen in Bild und O-Ton ...

by Michael Hartleben, posted on 19. Mai 2006 at 01:35 about: BORN to MOVE - Kazakhstan unlimited Dear Mr Davatz, I just watched your documentary ' Born to Move - Kazakhstan unlimited' and I am extraordinarily impressed. While writing these words, my hands are still shaking from the exitement generated ...

Directors comments Following a short term arrangement I met Professor Dr. Eugen Beck, son of the famous swiss composer Conrad Beck (“Tod zu Basel“) in his apartment in Lugano. Delayed because of traffic problems at the Gotthard I arriverd for the shooting at 2 o’clock in the early morning and ...

Synopsis – «Liebe Anna» 33’52“ swissportrait, Lugano 2004 darsteller Prof.Dr.med.Eugen Beck ein JÜRG DA VAZ film Vermächtnis an Anna Eugen Beck, Hämatologe sitzt am Küchentisch und erzählt. Er ist nicht nur Mediziner, sondern auch Künstler. Virtuos spielt er Musik von Conrad Beck, seinem Vater und blättert dabei jeweils in Gedanken ...

Synopsis – «Liebe Anna» 33’52“
swissportrait, Lugano 2004
darsteller Prof.Dr.med.Eugen Beck
ein JÜRG DA VAZ film

Vermächtnis an Anna
Eugen Beck, Hämatologe sitzt am Küchentisch und erzählt. Er ist nicht nur Mediziner, sondern auch Künstler. Virtuos spielt er Musik von Conrad Beck, seinem Vater und blättert dabei jeweils in ...

I saw your film - aral sea. - When i was little i heard about this problem but never see it, didn't imagine how it can be. So so much new from your film for me and deep impression and the sound .. Ioulia Morozova, Moscow, 1.2.2005 Ideas of man ...

Sitting in her flat in Old Ponds, a two hour drive outside of Moscow, Tatyana Osipovna Martynova picked up her glasses from the table and said: With my glasses on I can not see anything but without glasses I can read everything up to now – if I would have ...

Sitting in her flat in Old Ponds, a two hour drive outside of Moscow, Tatyana Osipovna Martynova picked up her glasses from the table and said: With my glasses on I can not see anything but without glasses I can read everything up to now – if I would have ...

The true cost of life never shows up in a balance sheet.
Babushka Masha: «I had no choice».
«Babushka Masha» is about simple and hard facts of life being exposed as much as Babushka Masha dares to open up. This documentary is not about politics - no poor female soul ...

The true cost of life never shows up in a balance sheet. Babuschka Mascha: “I had no choice“ “Babuschka Mascha“ is about simple and hard facts of life being exposed as much as Babuschka Mascha dares to open up. This documentary is not about politics - no poor female soul ...

Documentary

I love you
I love you more
I love you all the way
SIBERIA
You are my limit (Mercedes)

Stuck in the mud by heavy rains in the kazakh prairie of Siberia

- where the difference of men
makes for common strength -

camera1: Jürg ...

private foto
KYRGYZSTAN
documentary

camera 1: Jürg Da Vaz
camera 2: Irlan Saginov
camera 3: Cholpon Tursynova
camera 4: Aleksander Yurchenko

edited by Sándor Gréczi

directed by Jürg Da Vaz

a handmade Da Vaz production©2003 ...

Interview MTV
Péterfffy - Da Vaz

Shot in Budapest, MTV Building main floor on Shabadszag ter. ...

An artist’s view
by Ben, posted on Sunday, February 19th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
If you wonder how Da Vaz works, check out this TV-feature on his stint at a Kazakh media school. His filming techniques are certainly quite unique, not only for the Kazakh students. Maybe because, in Da ...

Kazakh Television
Televised on satelite, national and regional TV networks in Mai 2003

Interview: Vladimir Tyulkin
Edited by: Kazakh TV

Email by Ben, posted on Sunday, February 19th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
An artist’s view
If you wonder how Da Vaz works, check out this TV-feature on his stint at a Kazakh media school. His ...

Picking me up at Sheremetievo Airport Yura had plans to visit his family in Smolensk. They had a family reunion. As we drove from Moscov to Yuri's hometown he told me the family was unaware that we would join them.
There were heartfelt moments when we enterd the circle of ...

Picking me up at Sheremetievo Airport Yura had plans to visit his family in Smolensk. They had a family reunion. As we drove from Moscov to Yuri's hometown he told me the family was unaware that we would join them.
There were heartfelt moments when we enterd the circle of ...

Architecture of a Trial is about a young lady who plays the piano for the last 20 years.
She just past all her exams with bravura. But she suffers in her head terribly.
She measures herself with the sun. Her heart gets burnt. Her courage falters.
She invites me to ...

soeben habe ich den Rettungs-Marsch 1913 entdeckt, von mir als einzigartiges Meisterwerk empfunden. Diese Verknüpfung von "Geschichte", Zögern der Rettungs-Mannschaft (und Pferdeschaft), im Hinterbgrund musikalisch der Beinahe-Weltuntergang des 1.Weltkriegs vorweggenommen, hat mich tief beeindruckt. Wir haben über Schönberg gesprochen, der sein Ton-System zu dieser Zeit erfand. Weisst Du, dass er ...

soeben habe ich den Rettungs-Marsch 1913 entdeckt, von mir als einzigartiges Meisterwerk empfunden. Diese Verknüpfung von "Geschichte", Zögern der Rettungs-Mannschaft (und Pferdeschaft), im Hinterbgrund musikalisch der Beinahe-Weltuntergang des 1.Weltkriegs vorweggenommen, hat mich tief beeindruckt. Wir haben über Schönberg gesprochen, der sein Ton-System zu dieser Zeit erfand. Weisst Du, dass er ...

Everything has a life the good and the bad.
The lifetime of tyranny is usually shorter.

The terror and brutality of the Khmer Rouge lasted 4 years and 8 months, from 1975-1979. The hard core consisted of expatriates that had studied in France. More than 2 million people were killed ...

Jürg Da Vaz, a Swiss artist, a painter and filmmaker

Fókusz – RTL Club
Interview by Emese Acs
Edited by Róbert Kurucs
Filmed on site at the Zoo and in Hajos utca, Budapest

14.11.2002 1909pm on MTV, Hungarian TV

Jürg Da Vaz 00:01:02 Anikó: Jürg Da Vaz, a Swiss artist, a painter and filmmaker, arrived at ...

Childhood endangered

Nonverbal communication as a primary tool of engaging and connecting in a world of sheer unlimited possibilities creates the most fundamental changes in human behaviour through curiosity and contact. It`s core consists of learning by doing. Such is the nature of learning that it never stops reinventing ...

Childhood endangered

Nonverbal communication as a primary tool of engaging and connecting in a world of sheer unlimited possibilities creates the most fundamental changes in human behaviour through curiosity and contact. It`s core consists of learning by doing. Such is the nature of learning that it never stops reinventing ...

« Same Hand...
Different Handwriting...»

interviews
Ernst Beyeler, Ariuscha Davatz, Ursula Davatz, Zeno Davatz, Peter Fitz, Gerda Hajnos, Lukas Pfister,
Heidi Rieder, Till Schaap, Rolf Surbeck, Rolf Utzinger

aknowledgements
Gymnasium am Münsterplatz, Basler Münster, Benteli Verlag, Bern, Beyeler Foundatio, Riehen
Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Kunstmuseum Bern, Mücsarnok, Kunsthalle, Budapest, ...

Dear Mr.Da Vaz Shanghai, 24.6.2001
being a spectator, I thought that your homeland is very beautiful, the small city, the big mountains with snowcap, the cafe shop Odeon, the Beyeler Museum, the Kunstmuseum in Bern, the Tinguely Museum. Also I know now a little bit about the art history of ...

There is "Immediacy over China" to go for growth. Astonishing in size, quality and quantity the drive for change is to build utmost stability. speeches: Heide Simonis, Pan Gongkai camera 1: Da Vaz camera 2: Shi Qi camera 3: Hangzhou TV director of photography: Jürg Da Vaz computer animation: Didier ...

a creative documentary
Interview: András Péterffy - Jürg Da Vaz
MTV, Budapest, 8.December 1999
hungarian - english

01 52 These pictures were shot in China, though at first sight the only thing that can be noticed: there is something peculiar in them.

02 02 And the author is ...

a creative documentary
Interview: András Péterffy - Jürg Da Vaz
MTV, Budapest, 8.December 1999
hungarian - english

01 52 These pictures were shot in China, though at first sight the only thing that can be noticed: there is something peculiar in them.

02 02 And the author is ...

Deal with China on all fronts, for China is not a monolith.
As it changes, so the voices and interests
that make up the country multiply.
We would do well to engage them all.

camera 1 on site: Da Vaz
camera 2 on site: Shi Qi

support on ...

Early morning hours in the City of Joy.
Facts and Fragments.
Documentary
camera: Jürg Da Vaz
editing: Sándor Gréczi
directed by Jürg Da Vaz
filmed on site in Calcutta
a Da Vaz production© 1999 ...

M O R P H O P O L I S, a City of Morphogenesis reconstructed on a detail (21x29cm) of the picture Morphogenesis, China ink on canvas, 210x450cm. A bold Plan to abolish Darkness. "Immer wieder fragen, worauf es ankommt". concept and artwork: Jürg Da Vaz CAD 3D model: ...

Pigstile (14 minutes, 43 seconds)
In this film, complex scenario presents the director’s interaction, using pad and pens, with a variety of pigs at the Hungapig farm in Hungary. From baby pigs still attached to their mothers’ umbilical cord to mature adult ones, the artist’s pad again becomes the medium ...

— Bhutan, known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon because of its violent storms, has a population of 635,000.

— 60 per cent of its people survive on subsistence farming; 15,000 to 20,000 of them are monks.

— Archery is the national sport.

— Smoking is ...

Documentary
Facts and Fragments from the Himalayas.
camera: Jürg Da Vaz
editing: Sándor Gréczi
directed by Jürg Da Vaz
filmed on site in Sikkim
a handmade Da Vaz production© 1999 ...

Roots of Communication: cut it - watch it - eat it - DIGEST it. The mind is restructured by digestion. Seminar on Communication given to the Freshman's class on the campus of the Catholic University in Piliscaba, Hungary. With guest Márta Sebestyén, (English Patient, Kossuth prize winner 1999). Documentary camera ...

On the Highway from Budapest to Szada, Hungary.
Synchronized for 2 monitors.
camera 1: Juri Burak
camera 2: Lászlo Dörflinger
coordination: András Péterffy
driver 1: Ernö Nagy
driver 2: Tibor Varadi
editing: Sándor Greczi
directed by Jürg Da Vaz
filmed on the Highway from Budapest to Szada, Hungary
a handmade ...

DEAD END
Asylum in Avonino, Russia

“Es ist Aufgabe des Meisters,
den Schüler vor dem Meister zu warnen.“

A creative documentary ...

A document of biological code. "Gegenständlich Zeichnen für Leerkräfte".
In some mysterious ways the answer lies in the snout.

Synchronized for 2 monitors.

camera 1: Lászlo Dörflinger
camera 2: Ernö Nagy
camera 3: Péter Szalai

coordination: András Péterffy

editing: Sándor Gréczi

directed by Jürg Da ...

Arrested Development, Butirca Prison, Moscow
A film on the conditions of men in the critical phase of retardation,
a documentary about the Butirca Prison in Moscow.
camera: Juri Burak
editing: Istvan Ausch
postediting: Sándor Gréczi
directed by Jürg Da Vaz.
filmed on site at Butirca Prison, Moscow
a Da Vaz ...

1998
Suite 702 in the Russian sector of Hotel Moskva in Moscow
Moments of Execution,
a day of Suffering and Hope,
Time of radical change.
Da Vaz has actually found
"a room with a view of a special kind".
camera: Juri Burak
editing: Sándor Gréczi
piano: Boris Kabakov
directed by ...

Chicken Pick (12 minutes, 18 seconds)
A man enters a chicken coop armed only with some seed, a drawing pad and some pens. He proceeds to ‘peck’ at the pad with these pens, thereby finding a human analogue to chicken behaviour. The chickens go through a variety of responses to ...

PICK and PEN, the chicken of Babolna, Hungary
Figurative Drawing for Beginners.
New principles on how to approach "Gegenständlichkeit".
10 000 one day old chicks are probing the motorik of Da Vaz.

Synchronized for 3 monitors.

camera 1: Juri Burak
camera 2: Lászlo Dörflinger
camera 3: Ernö Nagy ...

BUDAPEST DIARY
Der Vorwärtsgänger

Documentary.
A series of on the spot interviews at various places in the City of Budapest.

Interview: András Péterffy - Jürg Da Vaz, June - July 1998.

camera 1: Juri Burak
camera 2: Lászlo Dörflinger
camera 3: Ernö Nagy
camera 4: Tibor Varadi ...

BUDAPEST DIARY – Der Vorwärtsgänger
Documentary.
A series of on the spot interviews at various places in the City of Budapest.

Interview: András Péterffy - Jürg Da Vaz, June - July 1998.
camera 1: Juri Burak
camera 2: Lászlo Dörflinger
camera 3: Ernö Nagy
camera 4: Tibor Varadi
editing: Sándor Gréczi
editing: Jürg ...

What the Datcha tells...and a staircase contains, SOMETHING about the Influence of Reality on Abstract Drawing. Radio ulica 10, Moscow, 24. October, 1998. camera: Juri Burak editing: Sándor Gréczi sound: Andrej Batlusky directed by Jürg Da Vaz filmed on site at Radio utca 10, Moscow a handmade Da Vaz production© ...

Moments of Deconstructivism, an afternoon not to be forgotten in the neighborhood of Radio ulica, Moscow. camera: Juri Burak editing: Sándor Gréczi sound: Andrej Batlusky directed by Jürg Da Vaz filmed on site at Radio utca 10, Moscow a handmade Da Vaz production© 1998 ...

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TRAPPED REALITY
Short Stories from Moscow

Events I stumbled into.

The Short Stories from Moscow are mental exercises on art, on the happenstances of daily life and on the identity of
man in the streets of Moscow. In Russia there is too much of everything: too much sky, ...

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The OTHER EYE – a passage through India – 1998 Prix de Bâle, Prix de la SSR, 36ème Séminaire de l´UER pour la Télévision éducative. In cooperation with B. R. Studio at the movie city Bollywood in Bombay, India. creative documentary duration: 29min.30sec, camera 1: Malhotra camera, camera 2: Urutjan, ...