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Calcutta 71

Nov 12—Nov 16, 2023
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2023
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  • “Be realistic, demand the impossible!” Cinema, Surrealism, Marxism
Directed by Mrinal Sen
With Utpal Dutt, Devraj Roy, Satya Bannerjee

​A young man, eternally 20, walks through history, poverty, squalor, and death in this Bengali art film by renowned Indian director Mrinal Sen. The nameless, unaging narrator comes and goes across four stories, each of which confronts the painful realities of poverty and degradation. Sen urges the middle class to reject the plague of complacency and question the culturally ingrained expectation that the lower class in India must suffer.

UPCOMING Screenings

      RUNNING TIME

      116min

      VENUE

      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      FORMAT

      DCP

      LANGUAGE

      In Bengali with English subtitles

      TICKET INFORMATION

      General Admission: $16
      Members: $8

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