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Leaving Bakul Bagan / a film by Sandeep Bhusan Ray.
LIBRA VHS DS486.C2 L43 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Bengali
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian students.
- Women.
- Kolkata (India)--Social life and customs.
- Kolkata (India).
- Families--India--Kolkata.
- Families.
- India--Kolkata.
- Women--India--Kolkata.
- Women--India--Biography.
- East Indian students--United States.
- United States.
- India.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (43 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Reversioned.
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 1995.
- Language Note:
- In Bengali with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- This moving documentary follows the filmmaker's cousin's imminent departure from India to pursue studies in the United States. Torn between familial and national loyalities and her desire to travel and experience personal freedom, this film captures one young woman's embarkation into the world outside what she has known.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 36963512
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