Court / Kino Lorber, Zeigeist Films, Memento Films ; Zoo Entertainment presents ; written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane ; produced by Vivek Gomber.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
  • Multiple languages
  • Marathi
  • Hindi
  • English
  • Gujarati
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2018]
  • ©2018
Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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    Medium/​Support
    4 3/4 in. color
    Summary note
    "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.
    Notes
    • Title statement from the container.
    • "Produced with the support of the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam"--Onscreen closing credits.
    • "Dedicated to VK"--Onscreen closing credits.
    Creation/​Production credits
    Director of photography, Mrinal Desai ; editor, Rikhav Desai ; music, Sambhaji Bhagat.
    Target audience
    MPAA rating: Not rated.
    System details
    DVD; NTSC region 1; widescreen presentation (2.35:1, 16x9); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround; color.
    Awards
    Winner of 17 international awards.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi, Shirish Pawar, Usha Bane.
    Language note
    Dialogue in Marathi, Hindi, English and Gujarati with English subtitles.
    Publisher no.
    K22953
    OCLC
    914233361
    Universal Product Code
    • 738329229535
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