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The Bengali Night (1988)

The Bengali Night poster
Original title
La nuit Bengali
Directed by
Nicolas Klotz
Genre
drama film, biographical film
Country
United Kingdom, France, Switzerland
Runtime
2h 33m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A European man falls in love with a woman he meets in colonial India. The story follows their romantic entanglement and the cultural tensions that surround it.

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What happens

The Bengali Night (French: la Nuit Bengali) is a 1988 semi-autobiographical film based upon the Mircea Eliade 1933 Romanian novel, Bengal Nights, directed by Nicolas Klotz and starring Hugh Grant, Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Pathak and Shabana Azmi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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