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Filmhaus Nürnberg: Tribute Satyajit Ray

Charulata

The Lonely Wife
Filmstill from CHARULATA: A woman looks into the camera. She has a dot on her forehead and is holding opera glasses.

Fri 12.09.
20:00

  • Director

    Satyajit Ray

  • India / 1964
    117 min. / DCP / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee

  • Cinema

    Filmhaus Nürnberg

    zu dem Kalender

One of Ray’s most beautiful works, this melodrama is about the titular protagonist, who is lonely in her huge house and within her marriage in equal measure. She tries to distract herself via embroidery, books and observing people. Through golden opera glasses, she follows the events of the outside world that play out in front of her window. When her husband notices her isolation, he invites his cousin, literature student Amal, to live with them, provide company for Charulata and boost her literary abilities.

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