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India Song

Filmstill from INDIA SONG: A man and a woman in evening dress dance together. A servant can be seen in the background. The rooms appear sumptuous.

Sun 28.07.
16:30

  • Director

    Marguerite Duras

  • France / 1975
    120 min. / DCP / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière

  • Original language

    French

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

A chorus of different off-screen voices narrates and comments on scenes of interwoven love stories that converge at the French embassy in Kolkata in the mid-1930s. Anne-Marie Stretter (Delphine Seyrig), her lover Michael Richardson (Claude Mann), the Vice-Consul of Lahore (Michael Lonsdale), who is in love with Stretter, and an Austrian attaché (Mathieu Carrière) meet in mirror-lined rooms and neglected gardens. A complex film poem about passion and torpor, longing and ennui, INDIA SONG resembles a multi-layered mosaic of moods, atmospheres, and memories. (mg)

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  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media