The Cloud-Capped Star / Meghe Dhaka Tara Series: Watershed Director: Ritwik Ghatak, Country: India, Release: 1960, Runtime: 127
This finely tuned melodrama turns the story of a refugee Pakistani family living outside Calcutta into both a compassionate vision of self-sacrifice and a blistering critique of the economic disparities that arose from Partition, the crucial event in all of Ghatak’s work.
