Ghare baire Home and the world Ganashatru Enemy of the people Agantuk Stranger
Notes:
The home and the world: Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Chatterjee. An enemy of the people: Soumitra Chatterjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Mamata Shankar. The stranger : Utpal Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Dipankar Dey. The home and the world: based on the novel Ghare baire by Rabindranath Tagore. An enemy of the people: adapted from the play An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen. The stranger: based on the short story "Atithi" by Satyajit Ray.
Contents:
[disc 1]. Ghare baire = The home and the world (1984 ; 138 min.) -- [disc 2]. Ganashatru = An enemy of the people (1989 ; 99 min.) -- [disc 3]. Agantuk = The stranger (1991 ; 120 min.)
Summary:
"The films directed by the great Satyajit Ray in the last ten years of his life have a unique dignity and drama. Three of them are collected here: the fervent Rabindranath Tagore adaptation The Home and the World; the vital An Enemy of the People, based on the Henrik Ibsen play; and the filmmaker's final work, the poignant and philosophical family story The Stranger. They are complex, political, and humane depictions of worlds both corrupt and indescribably beautiful, constructed with Ray's characteristic elegance and imbued with autumnal profundity. These late-career features are the meditative works of a master."--Container. The Home and the World, set in early twentieth-century Bengal, concerns an aristocratic but progressive man who, in insisting on broadening his more traditional wife's political horizons, drives her into the arms of his radical school chum. An enemy of my people. In Satyajit Ray's absorbing contemporary adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen, a good-hearted doctor discovers that the serious illness befalling the citizens of his small Bengali town may be due to a contamination of the holy water at the local temple. The stranger. Based on the filmmaker's own story, The Stranger involves a bourgeois couple who are taken off guard when a man claiming to be the wife's long-lost uncle sends word that he will be coming to stay with them after years of travel.
Series:
Eclipse. Series 40, Late Ray Criterion collection ; 1984, 1989, 1991
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