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In Search of Famine

1981
Directed byMrinal Sen
2h 8m

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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Dhritiman ChatterjeeMovie DirectorRajen TarafdarDipankar DeySelf
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
6.9

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