Rabindranath Tagore - A Film by Satyajit Ray

This is a film biography on the life of poet Rabindranath Tagore (L. V.), prepared with the help of live shots, sketches, photographs and a dramatic impersonation of his early life. Here we see the career of one of the most outstanding geniuses of the century being unfolded in different fields of art-as a poet, as a painter, as a rebel and as an educational reformer through the various phases of growth, maturity and ultimate flowering. Director: Satyajit Ray From the Government of India, Ministry of Information, Films Division