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Distant Thunder

7.4

210

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Original title

Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder)

Year

1973

Running time

101 min.

Country

India

Director

Satyajit Ray

Screenwriter

Satyajit Ray, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. Novel: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Cast

Music

Satyajit Ray

Cinematography

Soumendu Roy

Producer

Balaka Movies

Genre

Drama | Poverty. II World War. 1940s

Movie Groups

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Adaptations

Synopsis

The action, which occurs in a tiny village in 1943, during World War II, is based on the man-made famine that caused the deaths of five million inhabitants of Colonial Bengal. Gangacharan, a Brahmin recently settled in the village with his wife Ananga, decides to start a school in exchange for being supported by the villagers. Airplanes disturb the peaceful sky, a metaphor for the disruption of traditional life of the villagers by War in Europe. It causes the price of rice to increase rapidly. This causes hardship for and rioting by the villagers and hoarding of grain by merchants. Gangacharan, shrewd, manages to initially keep himself supplied with food in exchange for his services. However conditions begin to deteriorate rapidly.

Awards: 1973: Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear

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Distant Thunder

1973

Satyajit Ray

7.4

(210)