In Search of Famine

7.2 (11 votes)• 1981• 128m•Released

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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.

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Languages: Bengali

Director: Mrinal Sen

Starring Cast: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Rajen Tarafdar, Dipankar Dey, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Smita Patil, Sreela Majumdar

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