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Getting Married

The Wedding of Mahesh and Benela

Getting_Married_1_Nepal ©diethede
2012
The film documents the main events of a Hindu marriage in Bhaktapur, Nepal in November 2010. It covers the preparation and main rituals in both the house of the bride and the groom.

This is the third part of a project within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre 619, Ritual Dynamics at the University of Heidelberg, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The film is part of the publication „Getting Married. Hindu and Buddhist Marriage Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur and Patan, Nepal“, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012.

Credits

  • Written and directed by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels
  • Photography: Christian Bau
  • Production: thede filmproduction, Hamburg, Germany
Maria Hemmleb
Filmeditorin Maria Hemmleb

Filmdetails

  • Titel: Getting Married
  • Untertitel: The Wedding of Mahesh and Benela
  • Regie: Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels
  • Format: Dokumentarfilm
  • Länge: 55 min
  • Produktion: thede filmproduktion, Universität Heidelberg
  • 2012

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