12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1994
ENGLISH, AUGUST
by Dev Benegal
Country: India
Year: 1994
Duration: 120'
Like most well-to-do, urban Indians - particularly those born after independence - Agastya (August) Sen speaks and thinks in English. He listens to Bob Dylan, rock and jazz likes poetry and reads Marcus Aurelius for pleasure. He is also an Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influent and powerful cadre of civil servants in the country. From his class and family background, - his education - he seems destined to be one of the modem India's governing élite. August is sent off for a year's training to Madna, an obscure small town in the backwaters of central India. His experience of the real India becomes a rollercoaster ride of cultureshock, chaos, confusion and hyperactive sexuality. A foreigner in his own country, August negotiates this provincial creek with the only paddle he can find; fantasia, daydreams and "selfabuse" becomes his means of revolt and escape.
Biography
film director
Dev Benegal
Dev Benegal was born in 1960 in Delhi. He spent two years at the Cinema Studies department in New York University. Since 1985, he has produced and directed award winning documentaries. English, August (1994) is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Anantarupam (The Infinite Forms, doc., 1989), Kanakambaram (The Cloth of Gold, doc., 1989), Abhivardan (Building for a New Future, doc., 1992), English, August (1994).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Dev Benegal.
Screenplay: Upamanyu Chatterjee, Dev Benegal, dal romanzo di Upamanyu Chatterjee.
Director of photography: Anoop Jotwani, Mohanan KU., Prassan Jain.
Art director: Anuradha ParikhBenegal.
Editor: Dev Benegal.
Music: D. Wood.
Sound: Vikram Joglekar.
Cast and characters: Rahul Bose (Agastya Sen), Salim Shah (Srivastava), Shivaji Satham (Govind Sathe), Veeru Saxena (Shankar), Yogi Tikku (Kumar), Tanvi Azmi (Malti Srivastava).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Tropicfilm, #1028/29 Janki Kutir, Juhu Road, Bombay 400049, India, tel. +91226150962, fax +91226104840.
Screenplay: Upamanyu Chatterjee, Dev Benegal, dal romanzo di Upamanyu Chatterjee.
Director of photography: Anoop Jotwani, Mohanan KU., Prassan Jain.
Art director: Anuradha ParikhBenegal.
Editor: Dev Benegal.
Music: D. Wood.
Sound: Vikram Joglekar.
Cast and characters: Rahul Bose (Agastya Sen), Salim Shah (Srivastava), Shivaji Satham (Govind Sathe), Veeru Saxena (Shankar), Yogi Tikku (Kumar), Tanvi Azmi (Malti Srivastava).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Tropicfilm, #1028/29 Janki Kutir, Juhu Road, Bombay 400049, India, tel. +91226150962, fax +91226104840.
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