Court

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Label
Court
Statement of responsibility
A film by Chaitanya Tamhane
Subject
Genre
Summary
"Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet, ' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and harrowing display of institutional incompetence, with endless procedural delays, coached witnesses for the prosecution, and obsessive privileging of arcane colonial law over reason and mercy. What truly distinguishes Court, however, is Tamhane's brilliant ensemble cast of professional and nonprofessional actors; his affecting mixture of comedy and tragedy; and his naturalist approach to his characters and to Indian society as a whole, rich with complexity and contradiction."--Provided by distributor
Awards note
Winner of 17 international awards.
Cataloging source
CANA
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Memento Films, Hubert Bals Fund, Zoo Entertainment, written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane, produced by Vivek Gomber, original music by Sambhaji Bhagat
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
Language note
Dialogue in Marathi, Hindi, English and Gujarati with English subtitles
LC call number
PN1995.9.J8
LC item number
C68 2014
PerformerNote
Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi, Shirish Pawar, Usha Bane
Runtime
116
Technique
live action

Context

Context of Court

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