Learning on ScreenPhantom India (7 Parts)
- Synopsis
- Part 1: Briefly opens in Calcutta then goes to the South in search of traditional India, of religious piety, of the agricultural problems showing aspects of the daily lives of fishermen and peasants. Some Western beatniks discuss their attitudes to the country.
Part 2: Discusses religion, family planning, movie studios in the South of India but devotes most of its length to the dancing schools in Kaltchetra where girls learn the sacred dances in which the music and facial expressions are of precise religious significance.
Part 3: Asceticism, the sadhus wandering the roads, the ashrams, the esoterism, the philosophy of the negation of the world.
Part 4: Kerala, the only state to have a local government with a Communist majority and the one with the largest Christian minority. Ninety percent rural it is the state with the highest degree of literacy.
Part 5: Officially abolished in 1947 the caste system nonetheless remains the basic structure of Indian social life and is still endowed with a rigid form that no government has been able to eliminate.
Part 6: There are groups who have lived in India for centuries who have either refused to integrate into, or who were excluded from, Indian society, e.g. the aboriginal tribes like the Bonda, the Jews of Cochin, Catholics, and the Parsees who control the city of Bombay economically.
Part 7: Bombay, city of five million inhabitants, is in the midst of an economic boom and controlled by the Parsees; yet there are 600,000 people living in the streets and acute political problems. - Language
- English
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Film; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 7 x 50 min.
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of production
- 1969
- Availability
- Hire
- Subjects
- Anthropology; Religious studies; Sociology
- Keywords
- India
Credits
- Director
- Louis Malle
- Producer
- Elliott Kastner
- Writer
- Louis Malle
- Contributor
- Claude Nedjar; Etienne Becker; Suzanne Baron
- Cast
Louis Malle
Distribution Formats
- Type
- Film
- Format
- 16mm
Sections
- Title
- Impossible camera
- Synopsis
- Part 1: Briefly opens in Calcutta then goes to the South in search of traditional India, of religious piety, of the agricultural problems showing aspects of the daily lives of fishermen and peasants. Some Western beatniks discuss their attitudes to the co
- Title
- Things seen in Madras
- Synopsis
- Part 2: Discusses religion, family planning, movie studios in the South of India but devotes most of its length to the dancing schools in Kaltchetra where girls learn the sacred dances in which the music and facial expressions are of precise religious sig
- Title
- Indians and the sacred
- Synopsis
- Part 3: Asceticism, the sadhus wandering the roads, the ashrams, the esoterism, the philosophy of the negation of the world.
- Title
- Dream and reality
- Synopsis
- Part 4: Kerala, the only state to have a local government with a Communist majority and the one with the largest Christian minority. Ninety percent rural it is the state with the highest degree of literacy.
- Title
- A look at the castes
- Synopsis
- Part 5: Officially abolished in 1947 the caste system nonetheless remains the basic structure of Indian social life and is still endowed with a rigid form that no government has been able to eliminate.
- Title
- On the fringes of Indian society
- Synopsis
- Part 6: There are groups who have lived in India for centuries who have either refused to integrate into, or who were excluded from, Indian society, e.g. the aboriginal tribes like the Bonda, the Jews of Cochin, Catholics, and the Parsees who control the
- Title
- Bombay: the future India
- Synopsis
- Part 7: Bombay, city of five million inhabitants, is in the midst of an economic boom and controlled by the Parsees; yet there are 600,000 people living in the streets and acute political problems.
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
BFI Film Bookings Unit
- bookings.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/help-faq/film-bookings External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8938 / 8935
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
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