INDIA · 1987

Anantaram

Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Indian Parallel Cinema unreliable narrator mental illness identity crisis memory and perception psychological deterioration
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A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.

Year1987
CountryIndia
DirectorAdoor Gopalakrishnan
Anantaram poster

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