The ''Eternal Mother'' ( my, ထာဝရအမေ), a Burmese drama film created by

Sin Yaw Mg Mg Sin Yaw Mg Mg or Zinyaw Maung Maung is Burmese film director and film producer. His 2004 film Hlyo-hwat-thaw-hnin or Mystery of Snow was released internationally. Biography His real name is U Lyn Aung. He is son of U Kan Htoo and Daw Khi ...

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 May Than Nu ( my, မေသန်းနု; born on 27 January 1961) is a Burmese film actress. She has won 5 Myanmar Academy Awards throughout her career. Biography May Than Nu was born Than Than Hsint (သန်းသန်းဆင့်) ...

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.

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 Wundwin ( my, ဝမ်းတွင်းမြို့) is a town in the Mandalay Region of central Myanmar. Wundwin, alongside Amarapura, is a major domestic center of traditional ''acheik'' weaving, although in recent years, cheaper factory- ...

. 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 The University of Medicine, Mandalay ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး), ; formerly Institute of Medicine, Mandalay), located in Mandalay is one of five medical universities in Myanmar. The university offers Bachelo ...

. He then met with Khin Lay Yee. Not long after he became a professor, his mother died.

Cast

Main

Nay Toe Nay Toe ( my, နေတိုး ; born Nay Lin Aung on 9 September 1981) is a Arakanese film actor and comedian with the Burmese traditional dance troupe ''Htawara Hninzi''. He won Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards for Best Actor three t ...

as Khin Maung Win *

Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi ( my, ဝတ်မှုန်ရွှေရည်, , sometimes wikt:anglicise#English, anglicized as Wut Hmone Shwe Yi; born on 10 August 1988) is a two-time Myanmar Academy Award winning Burmese film actress and commercial ...

as Khin Lay Yi (spouse of Khin Maung Win) *

as Daw Khin Khin (Mother of Khin Maung Win) *Ye Aung as Khin Maung Win's father

Supporting

*Htun Ko Ko as Khin Maung Win's deputy *Zin Aung as Khin Maung Win's elder brother

Shooting locations

Myanmar

Mandalay Mandalay ( or ; ) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631km (392 miles) (Road Distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census). Mandalay was fo ...

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

Pyin Oo Lwin Pyin Oo Lwin or Pyin U Lwin (, ; Shan: ), formerly and colloquially referred to as Maymyo (), is a scenic hill town in the Mandalay Region, Myanmar, some east of Mandalay, and at an elevation of . The town was estimated to have a population of ...

Singapore

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

England

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

Awards and nominations

References

{{Reflist 2017 films