Home & the world videorecording The big city / screenplay and direction, Satyajit Ray

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Ray's Master piecesPublication details: Kolkata Maxtech entertainment c1995Description: 1 videodisc (131 min.) sd., b&w 4 3/4 inOther title:
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  • 709.51 HO
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When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Soumendu Roy ; editor, Dulal Dutta ; music, Satyajit Ray.
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Chatterjee, Gopa Aich, Bimala Chatterjee.Summary:
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Videodisc release of the 1995 motion picture.

Based on the story Rabindranath Tagore

When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.

Cinematography, Soumendu Roy ; editor, Dulal Dutta ; music, Satyajit Ray.

Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Chatterjee, Gopa Aich, Bimala Chatterjee.

DVD

In Bengali with English subtitles.

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