In Search of Famine (1981)
Akaler Sandhane
115 min
A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.
- Release date
- January 4, 1981
- Country of origin
- India
- Music
- Salil Choudhury
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Cast
- Dhritiman Chatterjee as Movie Director
- Rajen Tarafder as Haren
- Dipankar Dey as Self
- Radhamohan Bhattacharya as Teacher
- Smita Patil as Self
- Sreela Majumdar as Durga
- Gita Sen
- Devika Mukherjee
- Biplab Chatterjee as Self
- Umanath Bhattacharya
- Monu Mukherjee as Father of nurse
- Satya Bannerjee
- Bhola Dutta
- Satya Banerjee
- Reba Roy Chowdhury
Crew
- Mrinal Sen · Director
- Amalendu Chakraborty · Writer
- Mrinal Sen · Writer
- Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty · Producer
- Salil Choudhury · Composer
- K.K. Mahajan · Cinematographer
- Gangadhar Naskar · Editor
- Suresh Chandra · Production designer
- Bansi Chandragupta · Production designer