A passage to India [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin production in association with John Heyman and Edward Sands and Home Box Office, Inc., a David Lean film ; produced by John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin ; screenplay by David Lean ; directed by David Lean.
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FilmPublisher number: 20981 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment25616 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Series: Columbia classics (DVD videodiscs)Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008]Edition: Collector's edDescription: 2 videodiscs (ca. 164 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1424867800
- 9781424867806
- Passage to India (Motion picture). French & English.
- Director of photography, Ernest Day; editor, David Lean; music, Maurice Jarre.
- Academy Awards, USA, 1985: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Peggy Ashcroft) ; Best Music, Original Score (Maurice Jarre)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set in colonial India in 1924. Adela Quested (Judy Davis), a sheltered, well-educated British woman, arrives in the town of Chandrapore, where she hopes to experience "the real India". Here she meets and befriends Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee), who, despite longstanding racial and social taboos, moves with relative ease and freedom amongst highborn British circles. Feeling comfortable with Adela, Aziz invites her to accompany him on a visit to the Marabar caves. Adela has previously exhibited bizarre, almost mystical behavior during other ventures into the Indian wilderness: this time, she emerges from the caves showing signs of injury and ill usage. To Aziz' horror, he is accused by Adela of raping her. Typically, the British ruling class rallies to Adela's defense, virtually convicting Aziz before the trial ever begins. Though he is eventually acquitted due to lack of evidence (in fact, director Lean never shows us what really happened), Aziz is ruined in the eyes of both the British and his own people-as is Adela. Woven into these proceedings is a subplot involving Adela's elderly travelling companion Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft), who through a series of plot twists too complex to describe here becomes a heroine of the Indian Independence movement. A Passage to India was nominated for several Academy Awards, scoring wins in the categories of Best Supporting Actress (Peggy Ashcroft) and Best Original Score (Maurice Jarre). A theatrical version of A Passage to India, written by Santha Rama Rau, was previously adapted for television by the BBC in the mid-1970s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster and the play by Santha Rama Rau.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.
Special features: Commentary with producer Richard Goodwin; "E.M. Forster: profile of an author" featurette; "An epic takes shape" featurette; "An Indian affair" featurette; "Only connect: a vision of India" featurette; "Casting a classic" featurette; "David Lean: shooting with the master" featurette; "Reflections of David Lean" featurette.
disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.
Director of photography, Ernest Day; editor, David Lean; music, Maurice Jarre.
Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee.
Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Aziz on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, remastered in High Definition.
These discs are copy protected.
English or French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Academy Awards, USA, 1985: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Peggy Ashcroft) ; Best Music, Original Score (Maurice Jarre)