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Kusum / Script, direction by Jouko Aaltonen ; producers, Pertti Vaijalainen, Jouko Aaltonen.
LIBRA VHS/PAL GR880 .K87 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Hindi
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine--India--Case studies.
- Traditional medicine.
- Mentally ill--Care--India--Case studies.
- Mentally ill.
- Medicine, Psychosomatic--Case studies.
- Medicine, Psychosomatic.
- Mentally ill--Care.
- India.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Case studies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (70 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container and cassette label: Kusum - the healing
- Place of Publication:
- Helsinki : Illume Ltd. ; Leipzig : Deckert Distribution, 2000.
- Language Note:
- Spoken Hindi and some English; English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS PAL; requires tri-standard VCR.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- PAL
- Summary:
- Kusum is a 14-year-old girl who develops symptoms of a mysterious psychosomatic illness. Her impoverished family tries western medicine, and then resorts to the traditional healer Bhagat and the help of the god Balaji.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Marita Hallförs; editor, Tuula Mehtonen; research & scientific advisor, Antti Pakaslahti.
- OCLC:
- 84919250
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