From Opium to Chrysanthemums

At the height of the Vietnam War in 1969 Swedish filmmaker PeÅ Holmquist traveled to South East Asia to make a film on a Hmong village leader named LaoTong and the Hmong This film documents Holmquists return after 30 years With new material filmed in Thailand Laos and the United States and incorporating scenes from the 1969 documentary the film shows how much has changed and what has happened to the Hmong both in Thailand and Laos and in the United States