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Released
1985 · FILM

The Home and the World

TRADITION VERSUS MODERNISM

Directed by
Runtime
140 min
Language
BN
Drama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

In the early 1900s, Nikhilesh, a wealthy Westernized Hindu in colonial East Bengal, feels compelled to test the love of his wife, Bimala. He introduces her to his friend Sandip, a politician agitating against British rule, and Bimala is equally taken with both Sandip's anti-colonial fervor and the man himself. Personal and political tensions subsequently flare as the now assertive Bimala has to make a crucial decision.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dulal DuttaShot by Soumendu RoyScored by Satyajit RayDesigned by Ashoke Bose

Also known as

  • Das Heim und die Weltde
  • The Home and the Worlden
  • El mundo de Bimalaes
  • La Maison et le Mondefr
  • La casa e il mondoit

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