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In Search of Famine

Jan 4, 1981 · 2h 8m
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Drama

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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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CAST

Dhritiman Chatterjee
Movie Director
Rajen Tarafdar
Dipankar Dey
Self
Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Teacher
Smita Patil
Self
Sreela Majumdar
Durga
Gita Sen
Devika Mukherjee
Directed by Mrinal Sen

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IN

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