The Dance of AlchemistMyanmar
Me Pwar
2009
105 Min
PEZAW GYI (30), lives as street seller, selling traditional indigenous medicine by performing as Zawgyi, (Traditional Myanmar believe that Alchemist is taking care all kind of traditional medicine), meets MYINT ZU (26), rich and educated, who is taking treatment for mental illness. On the request of her father, Zawgyi agress to help her taking medicine, pretending that is made by holy way. When Zawgyi’s elder brother (AUNG LIN) (32) who is working as construction worker, die accidentally and he happens to become adopted father to his nephew MG THA CHO (9). Despite of his wish to school his nephew, kid insists to perform as junior
Alchemist dance and get along with him, also giving medicine to Myint Zu. She has attachment to junior and request Senor Zawgyi to let her schooling him after adopting various comments by neighbors. He agrees Myint Zu to adopt junior to become a medical doctor. Zawgyi becomes alcoholic and disappears from his community. When junior becomes a doctor, he tries to find his uncle but he cannot find him and opens a medical clinic by the support of his adopted mother under the title of “Zawgyi Clinic”. Both mother and son operating the clinic by providing free medical treatment
for the sake of Senior Zawgyi.
