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Summary:

"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.

Contributors:

Tamhane, Chaitanya, 1987- , film director, screenwriter

Gomber, Vivek , film producer, actor

Sathidar, Vira, 1960-2021 , actor

Kulkarni, Geetanjali , actor

Joshi, Pradeep (Actor) , actor

Pawar, Shirish (Actor) , actor

Bane, Usha , actor

Desai, Mrinal , director of photography

Desai, Rikhav , editor of moving image work

Bhagat, Sambhaji , composer

Zoo Entertainment (India) , presenter, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pre

Hubert Bals Fund , sponsoring body

Kino Lorber, Inc. , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English
Gujarati
Hindi
Marathi

Language Notes:

Dialogue in Marathi, Hindi, English and Gujarati with optional English subtitles and English SDH subtitles.

Main Work:

Court (Motion picture : 2014)

Subjects:

Trials (Sedition) — India — Mumbai — Drama

Suicide victims — India — Mumbai — Drama

Dramatists, Indic — India — Mumbai — Drama

Legal drama

Mumbai (India) — Drama

Trials (Sedition)

Suicide victims

Dramatists, Indic

India — Mumbai

Genres:

Motion pictures

Legal films

Feature films

Fiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Foreign language films

Drama

System Details:

DVD; 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo; NTSC; region 1.

Performers:

Cast: Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi, Shirish Pawar, Usha Bane.

Production Credits:

Director of photography, Mrinal Desai ; editor, Rikhav Desai ; original music by Sambhaji Bhagat.

General Notes:

"Produced with the support of the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam"--Onscreen closing credits.
"Dedicated to VK"--Onscreen closing credits.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.
Wide screen (2.35:1).
Special features: Casting, inspiration, music, trailer.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo; surround; Dolby Digital

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

COU 2014 DVD

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 738329229535
Publisher Number, Kino Lorber: K22953

OCLC Numbers:

914233361