the contentious matter of cow-killing; the Indian way of sitting with the left foot tucked beneath the body which the sultan had adopted; the custom that guests should not give presents to musicians – which appears centuries later in Satyajit Ray's famous film, Jalsa Ghor / The Music Room...
The subject of the film itself was a remarkable moment of border-crossing, when German deserters from the French For- eign Legion in Indochina joined and fought with the anticolonial Viet Minh in the 1940s.20 Torner and Lenshyn argue that the film's "transnational aes- thetic" ended up ...