Devi = The goddess
(DVD)

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Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021].
Format
DVD
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm).
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Southside - Media
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Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021].
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
ben
UPC
715515265614, 00715515265614

Notes

General Note
Title from subtitled screen and statement of responsibility and credits from English subtitles.
General Note
Based on the story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, from an idea by Rabindranath Tagore.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.
General Note
Full screen.
General Note
Special features: New program featuring interviews with Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee recorded in 2013; A goddess in close-up: Satyajit Ray's Devi (new video essay by Meheli Sen); essay by Devika Girish.
Creation/Production Credits
Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; film editing, Dulal Dutta ; music, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
Participants/Performers
Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Banerjee, Purnendu Mukherjee.
Description
"Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In rural India in the second half of the nineteenth century, after his son (Soumitra Chatterjee) leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy feudal landlord (Chhabi Biswas) is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore) is an incarnation of the Mother Goddess -- a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The elegantly stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering"--Container.
System Details
DVD format, NTSC, region 1; 4:3 full screen presentation (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby monaural.
Language
Bengali dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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