The Concert for Bangladesh

(1972)

★ 7.9 IMDb · 27 votes

Genres: Music, Documentary

Year: 1972

Runtime: 103 мин

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Director: Saul Swimmer

Cast: Eric Clapton, Боб Дилан, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Джордж Харрисон, Ravi Shankar, Ринго Старр, Клаус Форман, Claudia Lennear

Plot

A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.