Summary
When he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking-a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.
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Audiences 72GoodWatch 71
Audience score73%
IMDb7.1
Letterboxd · 997 ratings3.6/5
Running time
1 h 39 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 9699Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
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Streams in 5 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
Released
1969
April 16, 1969
57 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
French
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishMade in
- France
Directing · 1
- Louis Malle Director, Writer
Production · 1
- Louis Kastner Producer
Camera · 1
- Étienne Becker Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Suzanne Baron Editor
Sound · 1
- Jean-Claude Laureux Sound
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