In Search of Famine

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

Cast: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Rajen Tarafdar, Dipankar Dey, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Smita Patil, Sreela Majumdar, Gita Sen, Devika Mukherjee

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.