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(Kuala Lumpur, Penang; Malesia)
Duration: 54 minutes
Year of Production: 2005
Distribution: RAITRE
Format: Dvcam
Executive Producer: Andrea Patierno for Todos Contentos y yo tambien
Director: Francesco Patierno
Author: Francesco Patierno and Luca Cambi
Director of Photography: Marco Carosi
Editing: Renata Salvatore
For many of us, Malaysia is a fantastic place of pirates and sailing ships, of tiger hunting, and ferocious head scalpers, of the pearls of Labuan and of the villainous captains of the East India Company.... but forgetting the stereotypes of our television imaginations, what is there besides the unspoiled beaches and the wild jungles? And who are the new protagonists and the important themes of this country?...
Beyond the drama, Malaysia had never been able to have less than a tiger that guiding it. Today, two years from the end of his twentieth year of power, Mahatir Mohammad is surely considered the most important Malaysian leader after Sandokan.
He has succeeded in changing, in the arc of one generation, the whole national culture and has carried out a real and actual revolution in the field of the economy, transforming a predominately agricultural nation into a dynamic industrial economy, among the first in the world in the exportation of semiconductors and electric components, thus bringing the ex-British colony into competition with the "Asian Tigers" of Singapore, Taiwan, Honk Kong and South Korea.
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