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1) Devi
Series
Criterion collection volume 1102
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Bengali
Formats
Description
Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India's feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore)...
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Bengali
Description
Against the backdrop of political unrest in the late 1960’s, Anou, a shy boy from rural East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), is sent off to madrasa by his religious father. There Anu struggles to adjust to the austere monastic life, quite different from the vibrancy and pagan festivity of his village. A growing rift between his parents in the village mirrors an increasing divide between moderate and extremist forces in the madrasa. While the conflicts...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Bengali
Description
Set against a 1960's backdrop leading up to Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan, THE CLAY BIRD tells the story of Anu, a boy sent away by his father to an Islamic school. Far from his family and the warmth of his region's Hindu festivities, Anu struggles to break out of his shell and adapt to the school's harsh monastic life. As the political divisions in the country intensify, an increasing split develops between the school's students, just as...
5) Stranger
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Bengali
Description
An enigmatic but friendly long-lost family member visits after many years and shakes up a middle-class household with stories of his travels, in Ray's moving swan song.
6) Charulata
Series
Criterion collection volume 669
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Bengali
Description
Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the...
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Bengali
Description
During the winter of 1907-1908 in Bengal, widespread terrorism is rampant. A beautiful and sheltered woman's love is tested when her husband invites his boyhood friend to stay at their home while organizing a boycott of British goods. Much to her husband's dismay, she not only falls in love with his friend but also joins his quest for political justice.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Bengali
Description
In Satyajit Ray's absorbing contemporary adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen, a good-hearted doctor discovers that the serious illness befalling the citizens of his small Bengali town may be due to a contamination of the holy water at the local temple.
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