Satyajit Ray - The Big City + Charulata + The Saint + The Coward + The Hero + The Elephant God (1963-1979)
by Satyajit Ray
Carlotta Films – March 1, 2022
Original Title :
Audio: DTS HD MA 1.0: Bengali
Subtitles : French
Duration : 628' ( )
Format : Collector - Limited Edition Blu-ray
Genre : Emotion, Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Synopsis
- The Big City (1963)
Subrata Mazumdar, a modest bank employee in Calcutta, struggles to support his family. Breaking with tradition, his wife Arati decides to look for work and becomes a door-to-door representative. Her husband resents this situation but following a crash, he is fired and his wife's work becomes all the more necessary. It is then that an English colleague of Arati is the victim of an injustice from their boss. Out of solidarity for her but at the risk of losing his own job, Arati decides to take up her defense...
- Charulata (1964)
Calcutta, 1880. A young and wealthy intellectual, Bhupati, edits a political weekly in English and pays little attention to his wife Charulata, a sentimental woman with artistic tastes. Realizing his wife's loneliness, Bhupati asks his cousin Amal, a carefree young scholar, to help Charulata in her literary endeavors and to foster whatever talent she might have. Little by little, Charulata will take a liking to Amal and find herself upset by the eruption of new feelings.
- The Saint (1965)
Birinchi pretends to be a "sadhu" (saint) and takes advantage of the credulity of a father and his daughter Buchki. This does not help the affairs of her fiancé Satya, who fears that, by converting, she will escape him. Satya will do anything to get his beloved back and confuse the "sadhu"...
- The Coward (1965)
Screenwriter Amitabha Roy breaks down in a small town, near a teahouse. The manager offers him the roof and the cover while he repairs. An embarrassment then settles between his guest and his wife who are former lovers. Amitabha then tries to win back his heart and offers to go with him...
- The Hero (1966)
A Bengali movie star takes the train from Calcutta to New Delhi to collect an award. A journalist questions him and forces him to question himself, but through the bond that is woven between them, the hero reviews his life as an actor, his strong moments and his moments of crisis. He becomes again in the grip of doubt…
- The Elephant God (1979)
An old man, owner of a statuette of Ganesh, "The Elephant God", does not understand the excessive offers made to him for this object without apparent value. Shortly after, the statuette is stolen. A detective, helped by his friend and a writer for children, then take charge of the investigation.
Contains :
Blu-ray 1 - "The Big City" (1963, B&W, 136')
Blu-ray 2 - “Charulata” (1964, B&W, 119')
Blu-ray 3 - "The Coward" (1965, B&W, 69') + "The Saint" (1965, B&W, 66')
Blu-ray 4 - "The Hero" (1966, B&W, 117')
Blu-ray 5 - "The Elephant God" (1979, colors, 121')
"Charulata" and "The Hero" seen by Eva Markovits, programmer and critic (analysis of some key scenes) (HD)
"FR3's Guest: Satyajit Ray": Satyajit Ray is the exceptional guest of this program alongside film critic Michel Ciment and director Claude Sautet (INA, 1981, HD, 20')
Trailers (HD):