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.
Watch the official Calcutta 1969 trailer in HD below or find more Calcutta videos on Vidimovie.
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
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Calcutta:
Calcutta full hd movie trailer.
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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.
A clip depicting street protests and religious procession occuring around the same time and on the same street. The film released in 1969. Uploaded entirely for ...
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06 November 1969
A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant.
16 August 1969
Almendra, La joven guardia, Palito Ortega, Donald, Litto Nebbia all together in this little musical short.
18 June 1969
Danie Bosman is a civil servant dreaming of being a composer. But this is Depression-era South Africa and no one is interested in buying his music.
01 January 1969
The first film by Steve Carver ("Big Bad Mama"), focusing on the life of a young man growing up in Pruitt-Igoe.
05 November 1969
Alphonse flees to Paris to escape his wife's despotism. Intoxicated by the frenzied pace of Parisian life, he ruins himself completely.
01 January 1969
A balladic story based on the motifs of M. Urban's short story, in which the arduous work of loggers and the harshness of the environment interlace with the poetry of the Slovak mountains.
26 November 1969
Two vice cops get entangled in a web of prostitution, blackmail and murder.
01 May 1969
Ganesan is a widower and Paruvathamma is his mother in law. Shankar is the younger brother of Ganesan and he falls in love with Paruvathamma .
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