INDIA · 1972

Calcutta 71

Mrinal Sen
poverty and economic struggle natural disaster political corruption moral compromise survival and desperation
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The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor wh

Year1972
CountryIndia
DirectorMrinal Sen
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