Eclipse Series 40: LATE RAY: RAY, Satyajit: An Enemy Of The People (1989)
RAY, Satyajit [India]
An Enemy Of The People [1989]
Eclipse Series 40
DVD
An Enemy Of The People [1989]
Eclipse Series 40
DVD
In Satyajit Ray's absorbing contemporary adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen, a good-hearted doctor discovers that the serious illness befalling the citizens of his small Bengali town may be due to contamination of the holy water at the local temple. His findings are met not with public gratitude but with rancor, as well as opposition from local authorities, who are afraid the news will keep visitors away. Stately in style but with a fiery debate at its heart, An Enemy of the People gets at the tension between religion and science in everyday Indian life.
99 minutes
Color
Monaural
in Bengali
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2014
Director/Writer
Satyajit Ray was 68 when he directed An Enemy of the People.
The Film
Other Satyajit Ray films in the Collection:
The Film
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