Synopsis
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.
In Search of Famine (1981) is a 2h 8min drama feature film by Mrinal Sen. A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine.
Key facts
Cast
Dhritiman Chatterjee, Rajen Tarafdar, Dipankar Dey, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Smita Patil, Sreela Majumdar, Gita Sen, Devika Mukherjee
Original language
Bengali
First release
January 4, 1981 (India)
Awards
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, National Film Award for Best Feature Film
Crew
Screenplay
Mrinal Sen
Producer
Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty
Cinematography
K.K. Mahajan
Editing
Gangadhar Naskar
Music
Salil Chowdhury
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Festival History
Releases & classifications
| Theatrical | India | January 4, 1981 |
| Theatrical | Canada | September 14, 1981 |
Full credits
| Director | Mrinal Sen |
| Cast | Dhritiman Chatterjee (Movie Director), Rajen Tarafdar, Dipankar Dey (Self), Radhamohan Bhattacharya (Teacher), Smita Patil (Self), Sreela Majumdar (Durga), Gita Sen, Devika Mukherjee, Jayanta Chowdhury, Jochan Dastidar, Nilkantha Sengupta, Biplab Chatterjee (Self), Umanath Bhattacharya, Rathin Lahiri, Monu Mukherjee (Father of nurse), Satya Banerjee, Jayanta Bhattacharya, Mantu Ghosh, Siddhartha Dutta, Manojit Lahiri, Bhola Dutta, Paresh Ghosh, Gobinda Mukherjee, Sujal Roy Chowdhury, Samaresh Mukhopadhyay, Arati Das, Gopa Sengupta, Reba Roy Chowdhury, Purnima Dutta, Radharani Devi, Jishu Dasgupta, Ramen Roy Chowdhury, Raja Sen, Noni Ganguly, Gurupada Dey, Abhijit Ghosh, Shambhu Haldar, Nimai Ghosh |
| Screenplay | Mrinal Sen |
| Producer | Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty |
| Cinematography | K.K. Mahajan |
| Editing | Gangadhar Naskar |
| Music | Salil Chowdhury |
| Production design | Bansi Chandragupta, Suresh Chandra Chandra |
Additional data: TMDB.
