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Title The deliverance / a film by Satyajit Ray
Published Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 1981

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Description 1 online resource (49 min.)
Series Asian film online
Summary A peasant, one of the untouchable caste, carries out some odd jobs for a rich landowner, an influential man who gives advice to the villagers on important matters. The man orders the peasant to chop up a large tree trunk with an axe. Working under the hot sun, hungry and malnourished, the untouchable dies and his corpse remains on the road. What can the villagers do with a corpse that they cannot touch? Finally, in the cover of night, the landowner decides to drag the corpse by a rope. Starring Om Puri and Smita Patil, two of India's finest actors and actresses. This TV film was Winner Special Jury Award, India 1981
Notes Alexander Street Press PDA
DVDR-RNA-PG-C
Previously released as DVD
This edition in Hindi with English subtitles
Won 1982 National Film Awards, India Special Mention
Subject Motion pictures -- Asia
Form Streaming video
Author Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992
Asia Pacific Films.com
Other Titles Original title: Sadgati
Deliverance
OTHER TI Academic Video Online
Asian Film Online