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FilmPublisher number: CC3059BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Bengali Original language: Bengali Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 993.Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Blu-ray edDescription: 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (17 x 72 folded to 17 x 12 cm)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image
text

Media type:

video
unmediated

Carrier type:

videodisc
volume

ISBN:

9781681436210
1681436213

Other title:

Bengali title: Meghe Dhaka Tara

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PN1997 .C568 2019

Production credits:

Director of photography, Dinen Gupta ; editor, Ramesh Joshi ; art director, Rabi Chattopadhyay ; musical direction, Jyotirindra Moitra.

Cast: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Gita Dey, Gita Ghatak, Dwiju Bhawal, Niranjan Ray.Summary: Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta. She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and ailing.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00397 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050310149

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration, undertaken in partnership with the Film Foundation's World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new conversation between filmmakers Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Kumar Shahani; stills gallery featuring rare photographs related to director Ritwik Ghatak's life and work, curated by writer and photographer Nabarupa Bhattacharjee; new English subtitle translation; plus: an essay by film scholar Ira Bhaskar.

Title from folded sheet.

Aspect ratio 1.37:1.

Rating: Not rated.

Blu-ray; Aspect ratio 1.37:1; Monaural.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

Bengali dialogue; English subtitles.

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