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Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.Read moreLess
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
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Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
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Nora SwinburneThe Mother
Esmond KnightThe Father
Arthur ShieldsMr. John
Suprova Mukerjee
Radha BurnierMelanie
Adrienne CorriValerie
June TrippNarrator (voice)Explore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Claude Renoir
- Screenplay
- Jean Renoir
- Director
- Jean Renoir
- Screenplay
- Rumer Godden
- Original Music Composer
- M.A. Partha Sarathy
- Producer
- Kenneth McEldowney
- Editor
- George Gale
- Producer
- Jean Renoir