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Film details
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Featuring
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Countries
France United Kingdom
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Year
1992
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- La Cite De La Joie Alternative
Synopsis
Hasari Pal is an impoverished villager who, unable to meet his debts from his smallholding which has been affected by drought, brings his family to Calcutta, where he finds work as a rickshaw puller and moves into the slum area called Ananda Nagar (Bengali for City of Joy). There the family become involved with a disillusioned American doctor who has come to India in search of enlightenment and a dedicated Irish nurse who is struggling to run a clinic and a school for slum dwellers and outcast lepers.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Max Lowe
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Hasari Pal
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Joan Bethel
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Kamla Pal
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Amrita Pal
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Shambu Pal
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Manooj Pal
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Ashoka
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Anouar
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Ram Chandler
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Poomina
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Meeta
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Ghatak
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Gangooly
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Chomotkar
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Said
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Rassoul
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Shanta
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Ashish
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Selima
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schoolgirl
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Aristotle John
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Goonda
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schoolgirl's mother
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Mehboub
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hotel porter
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court judge
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obstructing policeman
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Binal
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Binal's wife
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Margareta
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Surya
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Shoba
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Dr Sunil
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Dr Sunil's assistant
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hotel manageress
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bartender
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thug
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thug
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thug
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hamburger bar waiter
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Selima's son
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minister at railway station
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Subash
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Subash's father
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Subash's uncle
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Subash's uncle
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Subash's uncle
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Subash's uncle
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Hasari's mother
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Hasari's father
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angry woman
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young patient
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special crowd
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Credits
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Unknown:
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Director
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Production Company
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Production Company
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Production Company
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Producer
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Producer
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Screenplay
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Based on the book by
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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Editor
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Editor
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Costume Designer
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Sight & Sound magazine
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