The River of Life and Death

(1941)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1941

Runtime: 10 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Alexander Hammid, Elmar Klos

Cast: Karel Beníško

Plot

The River of Life and Death captures the slow time in the well-known Indian pilgrimage place of Benares, the act of purification by water, the burning funeral pyres, and the dandling snakeheads under the temple stairs.