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Meghe ḍhākā tārā = Cloud-capped star / production, scenario and direction by Ritwik Ghatak ; production company, Citrakalpa ; story by Shaktipada Rajguru.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 032 295 DVD + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Bengali
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--India--Drama.
- Families.
- Parent and child--India--Drama.
- Parent and child.
- Happiness--Drama.
- Happiness.
- History.
- India--History--1947---Drama.
- India.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Indic.
- Fiction films.
- Family films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf ; illustrations ; 18 cm)
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Criterion collection.
- Other Title:
- Cloud-capped star
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In Bengali; optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Audio monaural.
- digital
- optical
- monaural
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on its eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta. She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and ailing.
- Participant:
- Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Gita Dey.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Dinen Gupta; editor, Ramesh Joshi; music, Jyotirindra Moitra, Rabindranath Tagore.
- Notes:
- Title from sell sheet.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1960.
- Special features: New 2K digital restoration; new conversation between filmmakers; stills gallery; new English subtitle translation; plus, A cry for life / by Ira Bhaskar (essay, on insert.)
- ISBN:
- 9781681436227
- 1681436221
- OCLC:
- 1108655126
- Publisher Number:
- 715515233514
- CC3060DDVD The Criterion Collection
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