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AKALER SANDHANE
IN SEARCH OF FAMINE
MRINAL SEN
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AKALER SANDHANE
IN SEARCH OF FAMINE
MRINAL SEN
Country
INDIA
language
BENGALI
1980 year
115 Minutes

SCHEDULE

04.03.2024 / 06:40 PM/ Audi 3 PVR INOX ORION MALL
06.03.2024 / 10:00 AM/ Audi 10 PVR INOX ORION MALL

Synopsis

A film crew comes to a village to make a movie about a famine that killed five million people in 1943. Tensions arise on set, as the actors live a double life and the villages watch their work with wonder and amusement, but as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present.

Producer(s) or Production Company: D.K. Films
Screenplay: Mrinal Sen
Director of Photography: K. K. Mahajan
Editor: Gangadhar Naskar
Music: Salil Chowdhury
Sound: N/A
Cast: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Smita Patil, Gita Sen, Rajen Tarafdar, Sreela Mazumder
Awards - Winner: National Award (Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Editing), Berlinale (Silver Bear)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: N/A
Director's Biography
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MRINAL SEN

Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, Mrinal Sen played a major role in the New Wave cinema of eastern India. For his radical artistic practice, experimentation through narratives, disruptive camerawork, and innovations in edit patterns, Mrinal Sen’s films have received awards from almost all major film festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Karlovy Vary, Montreal, Chicago, and Cairo. Retrospectives of his films have been shown in almost all major cities worldwide.