Catalogue des films par mot-clé
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Maharajah BurgerThomas Balmès | France | 1998 | 51 mn
How do Indians – who worship cows – look at Europe stuck in the mad cow crisis ? And what sort of picture can you get of Occidental progress when you are in India and simply watch TV ? To answer these questions, Thomas Balmès went to India...
Les Gardiens du GangeFrédéric Soltan, Dominique Rabotteau | France | 1998 | 52 mn
The last Kumbha Mela of the 20th century lasts three months. It is the world's largest religious gathering. This year, some 20 million pilgrims are expected at Haridwar, one of the four holy cities where this festival takes place every 12...
Devadasi : courtisane sacréePan Nalin | France, Belgique | 1996 | 52 mn
In India, dances and songs were performed for centuries inside the temples by women named "devadasi", literally "servants of God". Young virgins were married to the God Yamadagni. The cult included eroticism, and priests and maharajahs considered...
Le GangeAlain Lasfargues | France | 1996 | 54 mn
Mother of all men and principle of fertility, the Ganges, the sacred river, can purify everything. Along its 2,478 kilometres, from its source in the Himalayas to Calcutta, the Ganges is an integral part of the Indians' daily life. Many rituals...
La Route des eaux sacréesPeter Livermore, Jean-Michel Le Saux | France | 1994 | 23 mn
Haridwar, holy city on the banks of the Ganges in India's northern plain. Pilgrims come here to accomplish various rites : purification by the sacred water of the Ganges, the placing of funeral ashes in its waters, the fire ceremony in honour of...
Le PasseurGianfranco Rosi | États-Unis | 1993 | 57 mn
"The water of the Ganges is present in the life of every Hindu, playing a purifying role from birth to death. It is on this river that the film unfolds, in search of that deep and startling something, which even those not born on Indian soil can...
Swamiji, un voyage intérieurPatrice Chagnard | France | 1984 | 90 mn
Sous la forme de récit autobiographique, combinant les textes d'Henri Le Saux, souvent d'une grande beauté, et le souvenir de ses proches, l'itinéraire de ce moine bénédictin converti à l'hindouisme. Parti en Inde en 1948 pour y fonder un...
Un voyage en Inde n° 2 : maîtres et intouchablesJean-Émile Jeannesson | France | 1975 | 54 mn
Contrairement aux idées reçues, la violence traditionnelle dévoilée et la cruauté d'un chef religieux féodal.
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