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Original title

Akaler Sandhane (In Search of Famine)

Year

1980

Running time

115 min.

Country

India

Director

Mrinal Sen

Screenwriter

Mrinal Sen. Story: Amalendu Chakraborty

Cast

Music

Salil Choudhury

Cinematography

K.K. Mahajan

Producer

D.K. Films

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

In September 1980, 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. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple folk watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present

Awards: 1981: Berlin: Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize and Interfilm - Otto Dibelius Award

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In Search of Famine

1980

Mrinal Sen