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Satyajit Ray. Cast & Crew. Show all (19) ... Gérard Depardieu Producer. Daniel Toscan du Plantier Producer. Ashoke Bose Production Design.
When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
French actor Gerard Depardieu, Indian film director Satyajit Ray, and French movie producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier. Ray is the preeminent filmmaker of India, as well as an internationally...
Daniel Toscan du Plantier (7 April 1941 – 11 February 2003) was a French film producer. Educated at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques he became advertising manager for the France Soir daily newspaper in 1966 and between 1975 and 1985 was director-general of the Gaumont Film Company , and president of Unifrance , an organisation for promoting French films, from 1988 until his death.
Feb 11, 2003 · Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the president of Unifrance and one of the French and European film industry’s leading players died today in Berlin. Toscan du Plantier, 61, began his brilliant career when he was promoted to the director-generalship of Gaumont in 1975 after ten years spent in the advertising sector.
Oct 20, 2021 · It came from two key figures in the French show-business world: Daniel Toscan du Plantier of Erato Films, an opera-lover who had produced Joseph Losey’s Don Giovanni, and actor Gerard Depardieu, who owned his own production company and was a passionate admirer of Ray’s films, even comparing them to Mozart’s music. Together, in mid-1989, Du Plantier and Depardieu produced a lively one-hour French television documentary on Ray—with an animated, if slightly bemused Satyajit being ...
