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Title:

Shakespeare Wallah [videorecording] / Merchant Ivory Productions ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; story & screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; directed by James Ivory.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment,
Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Actors--Great Britain--Drama.
Theater--India--Drama.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Drama.
Feature films.
Foreign films--India.

Other Authors:

Merchant, Ismail.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-
Ivory, James.
Kapoor, Shashi.
Kendal, Felicity.
Kendal, Geoffrey, 1909-
Liddell, Laura.
Jaffrey, Madhur.
Mitra, Subrata, 1930-
Bose, Amit.
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992.
Merchant Ivory Productions.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1965. Special features: new high-definition digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen television; The Delhi Way (1964), a 45-minute documentary film by director James Ivory about the continually evolving city of Delhi; conversation with the filmmakers, part of a new series of interviews with Ismail Merchant; original theatrical trailer. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell, Madhur Jaffrey.

Summary:

The real-life adventures of a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but can't compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.

Series:

Merchant Ivory collection

ISBN:

9780780028746
0780028740

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54984964

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)