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In September 1980, a film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bangalis in 1943. It was a man-made famine, a side-product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation.
Jan 7, 1981 · In Search of Famine: Directed by Mrinal Sen. With Satya Banerjee, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Reba Roy Chowdhury. A film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943.
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- Drama
- Mrinal Sen
- 1981-01-07
A film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side- product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation.
A film crew comes to a village to make a movie about a famine which killed five million people in 1943. Tensions arise on set, as the actors live a double life and the villages watch their work with wonder and amusement, but as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present.
Sep 10, 2012 · A polemical feature from India's leading political film-maker, whose strident radicalism constrasts starkly with the liberal humanism of fellow-Bengali Satyajit.
A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.
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"In Search of Famine" is the award winning story of a film crew shooting a feature in a Bengali Village on a devastating famine which killed five million people in 1943. The crew appear impervious to the poverty surrounding it.
