::: Great Cinema at the Ancient Theatre:::

:: DETAILS

Reg./Dir.:
Florian Gallenberger
Sogg./Story & Scen./Script:
Florian Gallenberger
Fot./Phot.:
Jürgen Jürges
Mont./Ed.:
Hansjörg Weißbrich
Mus.:
Gert Wilden Jr.
Scg./Art Dir.:
T.P. Abid
Gautam Rajiv
Cost.:
Lisy Christi
Int./Cast:
Tannishtha Chatterjee (Masha)
Prashant Narayanan (Ravi)
Tillotama Shome (Deepa)
Irrfan Khan (Yani)
Tumpa Das (Masha bambino)
Sikandar Agarwal (Ravi bambino)
Sova Sen (Masha anziana)
Soumitra Chatterjee (Ravi anziano)
Prod.:
Helmut Dietl
Norbert Preuss per/for Diana Film
Fanes Film
CP Medien AG
Mondragon Films
Orig.:
Germania / Germany 2004
122’ / v.o. bengalese / 35 mm

:: PLOT

The story takes place in pre- Independence India, where two children, Ravi and Masha, work as child labourers in a carpet factory. Realizing that money determines whether one is free or enslaved, Ravi works his way up to best carpet knotter. But when he learns that the factory manager wants to sell Masha to a whiteslaver, he sacrifices all his savings to buy Masha’s freedom. As she leaves, Masha promises to wait for him at every full moon in Calcutta’s biggest Shiva temple. Years later a young man leaves the factory heading for the temple. Masha who has become a well-known dancer in one of the city’s brothels, also visits the holy site hoping for Ravi to come. But fate seems to have turned against their love and keeps them apart. Much later, after they have both married others, they meet again and their tragic love starts anew…

:: BIOGRAPHY

FLORIAN GALLENBERGER
Born on 1972 in Munich, after studying Philosophy, Psychology and Russian, he graduated from the Munich Academy for Television and Film (HFF). His short film Quiero ser (2000) won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. He also wrote and directed the short films Mysterium einer Notdurftanstalt (1993), Buck (1997), Tango Berlin (1997) and Hure (1997). Shadows of Time (2004) is his feature directing debut.

:: FILMOGRAPHY

2004
Schatten der Zeit (Shadows of Time)