Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire | feeds from sacw.net | @sacw
Home > Resources / Links > Trailer for the documentary film Bengal Shadows / Les ombres du (...)

Trailer for the documentary film Bengal Shadows / Les ombres du Bengale

27 November 2017

print version of this article print version

trailer " Bengal Shadows" from joy banerjee on Vimeo.

"Bengal Shadows" brings to light a lesser-known episode of the second World War: The 1943 famine, during which between 3 to 5 million people starved to death in West Bengal and current days Bangladesh. Some historians hold Winston Churchill wholly accountable for the famine...

duration: 48 minutes
Direction: Joy Banerjee and Partho Bhattacharya
Production: Petite-Terre

link to the trailer of the french version https://vimeo.com/237296020