Court / A film by Chaitanya Tamhane.

New York, NY : Zeitgeist Video, ©2014.

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

"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.

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Marathi; Hindi; Gujarati

June 21, 2018

Memento Films, Hubert Bals Fund, Zoo Entertainment, written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane, produced by Vivek Gomber, original music by Sambhaji Bhagat.

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

DVD, DCP, 5.1 SRD, widescreen presentation.

MPAA rating: Not rated.