Calcutta 71
1972•1h 56m•8.6•Released
Drama
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 while living in the lap of luxury.
Director
Mrinal Sen
Writer
Mrinal Sen
Languages
Bengali
Studio
D.S. Pictures
Cast
Madhabi Mukherjee
Gita Sen
The Mother in the 1953 Story
Binota Roy
Ranjit Mallick
Ranjit Mallick
Utpal Dutt
Anubha Gupta
Karuna Banerjee
Suchita Ray Chaudhury
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
Politician
Subhash Dutta
Train Passanger
Satya Banerjee
Haradhan Bandyopadhyay
Judge
Rudraprasad Sengupta
Man at the Party
Devraj Roy
Suhashini Mulay
Production
Company
D.S. Pictures
Producer
D.S. Sultania
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