Synopsis
When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil, edging ever closer to oblivion.
Cast
Credits
| Director | Louis Malle |
| Producer | Nouvelles Éditions de Films |
| Screenplay | Louis Malle |
| Cinematography | Étienne Becker and Louis Malle |
| Sound | Jean-Claude Laureux |
| Editing | Suzanne Baron |
From the Current
Eclipse Series 2:
The Documentaries of Louis Malle
by
Apr 23, 2007
Deservedly celebrated for the astonishingly diverse array of narrative features he made over a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle was in fact even more multifaceted than this body of work suggests. For alongside such well-known, and disparate, dramas as the cool noir Elevator to the Gallows...
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