Original title: Aakaler sandhane
Mrinal Sen/ India
A film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side - product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple folk watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of future.
Award
National Award for Best Film
National Award for Best Direction
National Award for Best Screenplay
National Award for Best Editing
Silver Bear in Berlin
Director: Mrinal Sen
Story: Amalendu Chakraborty
Producer: D. K. Films
Cast: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Smita Patil, Gita Sen, Rajen Tarafdar, Sreela Mazumder, Radhamohan Bhattachariya, Jayanta Chowdhury, Dipankar De, Jochhan Dastidar
Cinematographer: K. K. Mahajan
Music: Salil Chowdhury
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