The Show Goes On - The Indian Chapter
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Mrinal Sen
Mrinmoy Chakraborty
Ravi Gupta
Bob Last
Colin Maccabe
Mrinal Sen
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Synopsis
A survey of Indian cinema which traces the historical development of filmmaking in a country which produces over 800 feature films per year and exports them to half the world, particularly developing counties.
Director
Mrinal Sen
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Miscellaneous Notes
"The Century of Cinema" is a series of personal documentaries commissioned by the BFI to celebrate the centenary of film. For this series, some of the world's leading filmmakers were invited to provide individual interpretations of the history and development of cinema in their countries. The result is a fascinating look at highly disparate national cinemas and 100 years of film around the globe.
Shown at Venice Film Festival (Window on Cinema: 100+1) August 29 - September 9, 1996.
The participating filmmakers include: Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson (USA), George Miller (Australia), Stephen Frears & Mike Dibb (England), Shu Kei (China), Anne-Marie Mieville & Jean-Luc Godard (France), Edgar Reitz (Germany), Mrinal Sen (India), Donald Taylor Black (Ireland), Bernardo Bertolucci & Enrico Ghezze (Italy), Nagisa Oshima (Japan), Jang Sun-woo (Korea), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Latin America), Sam Neill & Julie Rymer (New Zealand).
The participating filmmakers include: Mohamed Tazi (North Africa), Jean Pierre Bekolo (Sub-Saharan Africa), Sergei Selyanov (USSR/CIS) and others.
