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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Louis Malle as Narrator (voice)
Louis Malle Director
France 10 May 1969
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Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta.
01 June 1917
A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.
01 June 1922
Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.
01 August 1923
Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.
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The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.
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From three weeks of total immersion in 'Calcutta' Louis Malle gives us some outlines of the city. People bathing in the Ganges the overcrowded streets ...
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This is a fragment from the Louis Malle documentary Calcutta(1969). It has Naxalite student demonstration and United Front student demonstration.
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