An Enemy of the People

(1990)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 27 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1990

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: India

Director: Satyajit Ray

Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Mamata Shankar, Bhishma Guhathakurta, Subhendu Chatterjee, Manoj Mitra, Satya Banerjee, Monu Mukherjee

Plot

Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.