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Plot: Gangacharan is the new Brahmin of a village, where he assumes various duties: teaching, organizing religious events, and trying to prevent epidemics. But in that year 1943, war is raging (as reminded ...( read more read more... )by the planes occasionally heard flying over the countryside), and a major famine is under way. As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation, while his generous wife, Ananga, conversely tries to help and support the community.

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  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 17, 2007
    This classic Satyajit Ray movie is set in India iin 1943, amid one of the worst famines in history. The "distant thunder" here is WW2, which has caused the famine. An upper caste woman, ashamed of her husband, attempts to help her village. It plays out like a tragic version of the Lady Godiva myth.

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