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Gandhi

ORIGINAL TITLE

Gandhi

YEAR

1982

RUNNING TIME

188 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Richard Attenborough

SCREENWRITER

John Briley

COMPOSER

Ravi Shankar & George Fenton

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Ronnie Taylor & Billy Williams

CAST

Ben Kingsley, Edward Fox, Candice Bergen, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Om Puri, Martin Sheen, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Nigel Hawthorne, Daniel Day-Lewis

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Co-production USA-UK-India; Columbia Pictures

AWARDS

1982: 8 Academy Awards, including Movie, Director, Actor (Ben Kingsley). 11 Nominations
1982: BAFTA: Best Movie
1982: National Board of Review: Best Film
1982: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Film
1982: David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Film and Producer

GENRE

Drama | Biography. Colonialism. Historical

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up with the unjust political system, he joins the Indian Congress Party, which encourages social change through passive resistance. When his "subversive" activities land him in jail, masses of low-skilled workers strike to support his non-violent yet revolutionary position. Back in India, Gandhi renounces the Western way of life and struggles to organize Indian labor against British colonialism. A strike costs many British soldiers their lives, so the crown responds by slaughtering 1,500 Indians. Enraged, the ascetic, spiritual leader continues to preach pacifism until he has lead India out from under the tyranny of British imperialism.

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