In Search of Famine

(1981)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 11 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1981

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: India

Director: Mrinal Sen

Cast: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Rajen Tarafdar, Dipankar Dey, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, स्मिता पाटिल, Sreela Majumdar, Gita Sen, Devika Mukherjee, Jayanta Chowdhury, Jochan Dastidar

Plot

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.