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INDIA · 1981
In Search of Famine
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Synopsis
A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.
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rural poverty · film production · historical trauma · social responsibility · famine and hunger
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