Devi

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Ray, Satyajit, film director.

Biswas, Chhabi, actor.

Mukherjee, Purnendu, actor.

Tagore, Sharmila, actor.

Chatterjee, Soumitra, actor.

The Criterion Collection (Firm), Distributor.

Kanopy (Firm)., Distributor.

Language:

Bengali

Subjects (All):

Foreign films.

Drama.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

The Criterion Collection 1960

[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022

System Details:

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Summary:

Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in DEVI (THE GODDESS), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In rural India in the second half of the nineteenth century, after his son (Soumitra Chatterjee) leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy feudal landlord (Chhabi Biswas) is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore) is an incarnation of the Mother Goddess-a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The elegantly stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering

Participant:

Chhabi Biswas, Purnendu Mukherjee, Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee

Notes:

Vendor supplied data

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1960

OCLC:

1299314278

Publisher Number:

12814062 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license