In Search of Famine (1981)
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.
Director:
Mrinal Sen
Writer:
Mrinal Sen
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Dhritiman Chatterjee as Movie Director |
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Rajen Tarafdar as |
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Dipankar Dey as Self |
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Radhamohan Bhattacharya as Teacher |
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Smita Patil as Self |
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Sreela Majumdar as Durga |
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Gita Sen as |
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Devika Mukherjee as |
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Jayanta Chowdhury as |
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Jochan Dastidar as |
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Nilkantha Sengupta as |
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Biplab Chatterjee as Self |
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Umanath Bhattacharya as |
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Rathin Lahiri as |
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Monu Mukherjee as Father of nurse |
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Satya Banerjee as |
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Jayanta Bhattacharya as |
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Mantu Ghosh as |
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Siddhartha Dutta as |
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Manojit Lahiri as |
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Bhola Dutta as |
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Paresh Ghosh as |
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Gobinda Mukherjee as |
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Sujal Roy Chowdhury as |
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Samaresh Mukhopadhyay as |
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Arati Das as |
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Gopa Sengupta as |
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Reba Roy Chowdhury as |
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Purnima Dutta as |
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Radharani Devi as |
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Jishu Dasgupta as |
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Ramen Roy Chowdhury as |
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Raja Sen as |
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Noni Ganguly as |
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Gurupada Dey as |
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Abhijit Ghosh as |
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Shambhu Haldar as |
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Nimai Ghosh as |
| Directing | Mrinal Sen | Director |
| Editing | Gangadhar Naskar | Editor |
| Production | Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty | Producer |
| Art | Suresh Chandra | Production Design |
| Art | Bansi Chandragupta | Production Design |
| Camera | K.K. Mahajan | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Amalendu Chakraborty | Novel |
| Sound | Salil Chowdhury | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Mrinal Sen | Screenplay |