Indian Nocturne ( Nocturne indien )

Indian Nocturne (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Nocturne indien
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Alain Corneau

Written By:
Alain Corneau
Louis Gardel

Actors:
Jean-Hugues Anglade ..... Rossignol / Xavier
Clémentine Célarié ..... Christine
Otto Tausig ..... Peter Schlemihl
T.P. Jain ..... Le docteur
Iftekhar ..... Le professeur de théosophie
Dipti Dave ..... Vimla Sar
Ratna Bhooshan ..... La patronne de l'hôtel Khajurao
Tinku Parma ..... L'écolière
Vijay Kashyap ..... La réceptionniste de l'hôtel Mandovi (as Vijai Kashyap)
Jaspal Sandhu ..... Le chauffeur du bus
Ashok Banthia ..... Le chauffeur du taxi de l'hôpital (as Ashok Bantia)
Vijai Gautam ..... Le serveur de l'hôtel Mandovi
Arish Hamin ..... Le serveur de l'hôtel Aguada (as Harish Hamin)
Jitendra Singh ..... Père Pimentel
Timoti Fernandes

Synopsis:

A Stranger in a Strange Land

Nominated for four Cesars, Nocturne Indien is a tense and dramatic thriller set in the most beautiful and exotic of locations - India. Jean-Hughes Anglades (Betty Blue) stars as Rossignol, a young Frenchman who arrives in Bombay to search for a missing friend, Xavier. From the prostitute who originally wrote to him, Rossignol learns that his friend fell ill about a year before, and then disappeared. Rossignol's quest takes him to Madras and then Goa, and at various stages of his search he has some insightful exchanges with the locals. But will he ever find what he is looking for...?

The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, Noturno Indiano. An old friend of the hero's has been living in Bombay with a prostitute. His friend Peter Schlemihl (Otto Tausig) is a concentration camp survivor, who went to India after being captivated by a photograph he saw there. When the prostitute writes to him in Europe asking that he rescue his friend from a mysterious malaise, he flies into India to try and help. When he gets to Bombay, he discovers that his friend has disappeared. Following the clues left behind by the friend, and based on his acquaintance with him, he journeys to Madras to speak to a Theosophist dignitary there, and then journeys on to Portugues Goa. With each step of his journey, the hero (Jean-Hugues Anglade) becomes more identified with his friend, and re-enacts in his own person the transformations he must have experienced.

Drama about a young man's vain search for a friend who has gone missing in India. Rossignol, a young Frenchman, arrives in Bombay to search for Xavier, a childhood friend who has disappeared. With only a few leads, he starts in the red light district where he meets a prostitute who had lived with Xavier. She informs him that his friend had fallen ill and been hospitalised shortly before his disappearance, a year previously. Rossignol's search takes him to Madras and then to Goa on a journey through a fascinating country, meeting strange people and resulting in a voyage of self-discovery.

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