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- BFI identifier368298
- Date1992-10-02 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom, France
- Production company
- SynopsisHasari Pal is an impoverished villager who, unable to meet his debts from his smallholding which has been affected by drought, brings his family to Calcutta, where he finds work as a rickshaw puller and moves into the slum area called Ananda Nagar (Bengali for City of Joy). There the family become involved with a disillusioned American doctor who has come to India in search of enlightenment and a dedicated Irish nurse who is struggling to run a clinic and a school for slum dwellers and outcast lepers. (Synopsis)
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Title
City of Joy (Original)
La Cite De La Joie (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/C09A-AACC-C526-9494-95F2-NCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Status pending
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Status pending
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Lapierre, Dominique - SCR-128
Script - SCR-129
The City of Joy - Continuity material for production of City of Joy (dir. Roland Joffe, 1992) - RAM-26
view all - StillsPhotograph: transparency - SPD-249221
Photograph: transparency - SPD-249222
Photograph: transparency - SPD-249223
Photograph: transparency - SPD-249224
Photograph: transparency - SPD-249225
view all - ArticlesCinema Papers n89 August 1992 - Credits, ReviewVariety 13 Apr 1992 - ReviewStudio Magazine n66 October 1992 - ReviewScreen International n796 1 Mar 1991 - Articleview all
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- +City of Joy
Work - 368298 - 1992-10-02 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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