THE MAKING OF THE MAHATMAInde - Afrique du Sud / India - South Africa1995 / 35 mm / Couleur / 80 min. 23 août à 19:00 CI.23.5 | |
| Réal./Dir.: Shyam Benegal. Scén./Script: Fatima Meer, Shama Zaidi, Shyam Benegal. D'après/Based on: "Apprenticeship of a Mahatma". De/By: Fatima Meer. Phot.: Ashok Mehta. Mont./Ed.: Avril Beukes. Mus.: Vanraj Bhatia. Son/Sound: Avril Beukes. Costumes: Pia Benegal, Diana Cilliers. Int./Cast: Rajit Kapur, Pallavi Joshi, Keith Stevenson, Paul Slabolepszy, Himal Devnarain, Strini Pillai, Siraj Khan. Prod. & Ventes/Sales: National Film Development Corporation, Discovery of India, Nehru Centre, Dr. A. Besant Road, Worli, Bombay 400018, Inde, tél.: (22) 492 2364, fax: (22) 495 0591.
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| MAHATMA: LA NAISSANCE D'UNE GRANDE ÂME
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, jeune notaire formé en Angleterre et qui pratique dans le Kathiawad en Inde, est invité par les responsables d'une société indienne d'Afrique du Sud pour les représenter. Le contrat est pour un an et il sera payé un aller-retour en première classe et la somme de 105 Livres Sterlings, tout compris. Gandhi part donc pour l'Afrique du Sud en avril 1893. Il y restera jusqu'en 1914. Il y sera à la fois témoin et victime d'injustes humiliations et de haine raciste. La répression politique et sociale de tous les Indiens de l'Afrique du Sud crée une impression profonde sur l'homme timide et peu éloquent qu'il était à l'époque. Cependant, celui qui n'était qu'un notaire parti en visite va mener la grande lutte de la guerre sans violence (le "satyagraha"). Et c'est une grande âme qui rentrera en Inde vingt et un ans plus tard... | THE MAKING OF THE MAHATMA
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a young English-educated barrister then practising in Kathiawad, India, is invited by an Indian firm in South Africa to handle their legal affairs. His services would be required for not more than a year and he would be paid "a first class return fare and a sum of 105 Sterling Pounds, all found". Gandhi left India for South Africa in April 1893 and ended up staying until 1914. While in South Africa, the young lawyer was witness to and victim of all sorts of humiliation and racial discrimination. The Indian immigrants in South Africa ranged from indentured laborers to lawyers and merchants but all were considered "coolies" by the Europeans. Gandhi had gone to South Africa as a shy, tongue-tied, nondescript little man whose past was marked by failure, but his experience in South Africa transformed him. He got caught up in the struggle against injustice. By the time he left to return to India, his philosophy and politics had changed drastically and he was no longer Mr. M.K. Gandhi but Mahatma, "great soul", the man who was to free his country from foreign rule without firing a shot. |
| Né à Hyderabad en Inde en 1934, Shyam Benegal s'attache au cinéma dès le moment où son père photographe lui achète un petite caméra. Il a cependant fait des études d'économie avant de choisir d'entrer dans la publicité. Il s'est finalement dirigé vers la télévision en travaillant pour la station WGBH-Boston et le Children's Television Workshop à New York. De retour en Inde, il réalise son premier documentaire, A CHILD IN THE STREETS en 1967. Il signe son premier long métrage de fiction, ANKUR, en 1974. Il a depuis réalisé dix-huit autres longs métrages, plusieurs documentaires et des courts métrages. Parmi ses films, citons: NISHANT (1975), JUNOON (1978), ANTARNAAD (1981), MANDI (1983), TRIKAAL (1985) et SURAJ KA SATVAN GHODA (1992).
| Born in Hyderabad, India in 1934, Shyam Benegal became interested in the cinema at age 12 when his photographer father bought him a small movie camera. At college Benegal was active in the film society movement and after graduating in economics, he embarked on a career in advertising. Eventually he gravitated towards television and documentaries, working in for WGBH in Boston and the Children's Television Workshop in New York. On return to India, Benegal launched his directorial career with the documentary, A CHILD OF THE STREETS (1967). He made his first fiction feature, ANKUR, in 1974. He has since directed 18 other features as well as several documentaries, television series and shorts. Among his films are: NISHANT (1975), JUNOON (1978), ANTARNAAD (1981), MANDI (1983), TRIKAAL (1985) and SURAJ KA SATVAN GHODA (1992).
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