Calcutta 71

The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.

• Mrinal SenDirector
• Ananda ShankarOriginal Music Composer
• Mrinal SenScreenplay

• Madhabi MukherjeeCast
• Gita SenThe Mother in the 1953 Story
• Binota RoyCast
• Ranjit MallickRanjit Mallick
• Utpal DuttCast
• Anubha GuptaCast
• Karuna BanerjeeCast
• Suchita Ray ChaudhuryCast
• Ajitesh BandopadhyayPolitician
• Subhash DuttaTrain Passanger
• Satya BanerjeeCast
• Haradhan BandyopadhyayJudge