In Search of Famine

Name: In Search of Famine
Genre: Drama
Released: 1981
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 7.182

1981 · 128 min

Drama

★ 7.2

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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.

Crew

Director Mrinal Sen
Screenplay Mrinal Sen
Director of Photography K.K. Mahajan

Cast

Dhritiman Chatterjee
Movie Director
R
Rajen Tarafdar
Dipankar Dey
Self
Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Teacher
Smita Patil
Self
Sreela Majumdar
Durga
G
Gita Sen
D
Devika Mukherjee
J
Jayanta Chowdhury
J
Jochan Dastidar
N
Nilkantha Sengupta
Biplab Chatterjee
Self

Crew

Director — Mrinal Sen
Screenplay — Mrinal Sen
Director of Photography — K.K. Mahajan

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