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Satyagraha (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
168 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Hugo Käch

Written By:
Constance DeJong
Mahatma Gandhi

Actors:
Leo Goeke ..... Gandhi I
Ralf Harster ..... Gandhi II
Helmut Danninger ..... Gandhi III
Inga Nielsen ..... Gandhi's Assistant
Elke Estlinbaum ..... Gandhi's Wife

Synopsis:

The preoccupation of the composer of "minimal music", Philip Glass, with Indian music and his interest in Gandhi began in 1966 during his first visit to India where he met Ravi Shankar. Since then, the rhythmic figures of Indian music have exercised a significant influence on his music which has a strong meditative and almost hypnotic effect through the repetitive sequences of tones with minimal changes. Glass's work needs time to unfold its hypnotic effect and fascination. With his second opera Glass didn't want to draw a historic portrait of Mahatma Gandhi. Instead he used the example of Gandhi's work during the last years between 1893 and 1914 in South Africa to draw an outline of the current worldwide political and religious problems. In South Africa Gandhi formulated his theory of passive resistance and civil disobedience known as "Satyagraha" as a reaction to the government's discrimination against the Indian population evidenced by its denial of basic rights such as the right to vote.

Based on an original scenario by Philip Glass and Constance De Jong, 'Satyagraha'. Performed in Sanskrit.
Act 1. Tolstoy.
Act 2. Tagore.
Act 3. Martin Luther King.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 13 July, 2009.