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Ashani sanket = Distant thunder / producer, Sarbani Bhattacharya ; scenario, music and direction, Satyajit Ray.
LIBRA PN1997 .A74 1990z
Available from offsite location
LIBRA PN1997 .A74 1990z
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Bannerji, Bibhuti Bhusan, Ashani Sanket., author.
- Language:
- Bengali
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bannerji, Bibhuti Bhusan--Film adaptations.
- Bannerji, Bibhuti Bhusan.
- Motion pictures, Indic.
- Famines--India--Drama.
- Famines.
- India.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Indic.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (92 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Distant thunder
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : New York Film Annex, [between 1990 and 1999?]
- Language Note:
- In Bengali, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- An award-winning dramatization of World War II famine, man-made, in India. As the government requisitions the civilian food supply for its armies, the common man starves. To eat he is reduced to an animal - a doctor must humble himself, a peasant turn to prostitution.
- Participant:
- Soumitra Chatterji, Babita, Sandhya Roy.
- Credits:
- Photography, Soumendu Roy ; editor, Dulal Dutt.
- Notes:
- Bengali title transliterated: Ashani Sanket.
- Video release of the 1974 motion picture.
- Based on a novel by Bibhuti Bhusan Bannerji.
- OCLC:
- 84918666
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