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Distant Thunder

Play trailer Poster for Distant Thunder 1973,  1h 40m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 100% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 91% 250+ Ratings Popcornmeter
100% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 91% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
Famine and war threaten to tear apart a Bengal village during the '40s — as well as the marriage of Gangacharan, who has assumed the role of religious leader and teacher, and his wife, Ananga. At first, life in the village moves along at a tranquil ebb and flow, but as food runs out and the specter of war looms ever closer, societal unrest builds. In the face of disaster, Ananga does what is best for the people while her husband seeks to preserve traditional ways.

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker Oct 19, 2023
The film is delicately, ambiguously beautiful. Go to Full Review
Jay Cocks TIME Magazine Mar 18, 2013
A tragedy of such magnitude becomes an event abstracted by arithmetic. But Ray's artistry alters the scale. His concentrating on just a few victims of the famine causes such massive loss to become real, immediate. Go to Full Review
Tom Milne Time Out Sep 8, 2011
Distant thunder, indeed; a superb film. Go to Full Review
Jimmy Cage Jimmy Cage Movie Reviews (YouTube) Mar 13, 2022
8/10
DISTANT THUNDER is an elegiac, thoughtful and startling film that shows the horrors of war and its inhumane effects from the perspective of the inhabitants of a small village in Bengal. This film has not only artistic but also historic value. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Mar 11, 2014
A-
A gentle humanist film that informs the world that over five million died of starvation and epidemics in Bengal. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Satyajit Ray

Director

Soumitra Chatterjee

Gangacharan Chakravarti

Babita

Ananga, Gangacharan's wife

Sandhya Roy

Chutki

Chitra Banerjee

Moti

Anil Ganguly

Nibaran

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Distant Thunder

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Movie Info

Synopsis Famine and war threaten to tear apart a Bengal village during the '40s — as well as the marriage of Gangacharan, who has assumed the role of religious leader and teacher, and his wife, Ananga. At first, life in the village moves along at a tranquil ebb and flow, but as food runs out and the specter of war looms ever closer, societal unrest builds. In the face of disaster, Ananga does what is best for the people while her husband seeks to preserve traditional ways.
Director
Satyajit Ray
Producer
Sharbani Bhattacharya
Screenwriter
Satyajit Ray
Production Co
Angel Digital Private Limited
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Bangla
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 1, 1973, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 26, 2017
Runtime
1h 40m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
35mm
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