Eternal Mother (2017 film) explained

Eternal Mother
Director:Sin Yaw Mg Mg
Screenplay:Moe Ni Lwin
Based On:the true story of the famous doctor, Dr Khin Mg Win
Starring:Nay Toe
Wutt Hmone Shwe Yee
Ye Aung
May Than Nu
Country:Myanmar
Language:Burmese

The Eternal Mother (Burmese: ထာဝရအမေ), a Burmese drama film created by Sin Yaw Mg Mg is based on the true story novel, "Mother and I", by Dr. Khin Maung Win. This is the first cooperated film between Sin Yaw Mg Mg and May Than Nu who did not work together since their separation 12 years ago. Their son, Min Thant Mg Mg, work as a deputy director for this film. This film was aired in Singapore.[1] [2]

Plot

Khin Maung Win is the son of a police officer. After his father retires from the police department, they moved to their home town, Wundwin. His mother, Daw Khin Khin, worked hard so that her children could go to school. Among her children, only Khin Mg Win passed the matriculation exam with three distinctions, and later he attended the University of Medicine, Mandalay. He then met with Khin Lay Yee. Not long after he became a professor, his mother died.[3] [4]

Cast

Main

Supporting

Shooting locations

Myanmar

Singapore

England

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2017Myanmar Motion Picture Academy AwardsBest PictureZin Yaw Films
2017Myanmar Motion Picture Academy AwardsBest Actress May Than Nu
2017Myanmar Motion Picture Academy AwardsBest Supporting ActorYe Aung
2017Myanmar Motion Picture Academy AwardsBest CinematographyWin Lwin Htet
2017Myanmar Motion Picture Academy AwardsBest DirectorZin Yaw Maung Maung
2017Myanmar Motion Picture Academy AwardsBest SoundThein Aung
2017Myanmar Motion Picture Academy AwardsBest EditingOwin

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ထာဝရအမေ ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကား မှ အဓိက သရုပ်ဆောင် ၃ ဦး ပရိသတ် နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံမည်. Pann Myat Zaw. Mizzima. 8 December 2017. 9 March 2018. my.
  2. Web site: အမေအားလုံးကို ကိုယ်စားပြုတဲ့ "ထာဝရအမေ" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကား. The Irrawaddy. Thiha Toe. 12 December 2017. 9 March 2018. my.
  3. Web site: ထာဝရအမေ: Eternal Mother. Yangon Life. 9 March 2018. my.
  4. Web site: Eternal Mother Movie- May Than Nu Interview. Popular Journal. Cherry. 9 March 2018. en.