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The Holy Man
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Bengali
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures.
- Comedy films.
- Satire.
- Motion pictures--India.
- Hinduism.
- Motion pictures--Asia.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1965
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2025
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Satyajit Ray pokes fun at spiritual charlatanism in this farcical social satire. Following the death of his wife, Gurupada and his daughter find themselves under the sway of Birinchi Baba, a self-proclaimed holy man who claims to be ageless and dazzles them with his fantastical stories of meeting Plato, teaching Einstein, witnessing the Crucifixion, and being on first-name terms with the Buddha. As Birinchi's band of followers grows, it's up to the skeptic Nibaran to expose his fraud
- Participant:
- Charuprakash Ghosh, Rabi Ghosh, Somen Bose
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1965
- Publisher Number:
- 16726777 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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