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Rabindranath Tagore, 1961
Production: Films Division, Government of India
Screenplay, Narration and Direction: Satyajit Ray
Art Director: Bansi Chandragupta
Photography: Soumendu Roy
Music: Jyotirindra Moitra
Editing: Dulal Dutta
Sound: Satyen Chatterjee, Durgadas Mitra
Song and Dance: Gitabitan
Duration: 54 mins. B&W
Cast: Raya Chatterjee, Sovanlal Ganguli, Smaran Ghosal, Purnendu Mukherjee, Kallol Bose, Subir Bose, Phani Nan, Norman Ellis.
   

For his documentary, Ray directing Balmiki Pratibha, an opera by Tagore.
Tagore as an adolescent
 
 
Awards
   
Prime Minister's Gold Medal, New Delhi, 1961
Golden Seal, Locarno, 1961
Special Mention, Montevideo, 1962

The Theme
 
This documentary film deals with the life and work of the celebrated Bengali author (1861-1941) who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The first section is composed of dramatized vignettes recalling the writer's childhood and adolescence: his private, domestic life. The second section, drawn from archived documents, shows his public life, emphasizing the great political movements in which he was engaged, and which led to India's independence.
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