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In Search of Famine
INDIA · 1981

In Search of Famine

Mrinal Sen
rural poverty film production historical trauma social responsibility famine and hunger
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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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