A Passage to India (Original title)
Dates: 1984 (Copyright), 22 March 1985 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirector: David Lean
Synopsis: Drama. In the 1920s, a young English woman, Adela Quested, goes on her first journey abroad to Chandrapore in India, where her fiancé Ronny works for the British government. Ronny's mother, Mrs Moore, and Adela make friends with a Muslim doctor, Aziz, who goes to great trouble and expense to host them on a picnic trip to the Marabar Caves some way outside the city. Inside one cave, Adela, who has been growing in sensual awareness since leaving England, has a strange experience and flees from the cave in distress, soon accusing Aziz of rape. As the trial nears, the community is heavily divided, with each group outraged and finding its worst prejudices confirmed.
Genre: Drama
Subject: Colonialism
Releases
Date: 14 December 1984not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 163 mins Length: 14698 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1984 (Copyright), 22 March 1985 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirector: David Lean
Synopsis: Drama. In the 1920s, a young English woman, Adela Quested, goes on her first journey abroad to Chandrapore in India, where her fiancé Ronny works for the British government. Ronny's mother, Mrs Moore, and Adela make friends with a Muslim doctor, Aziz, who goes to great trouble and expense to host them on a picnic trip to the Marabar Caves some way outside the city. Inside one cave, Adela, who has been growing in sensual awareness since leaving England, has a strange experience and flees from the cave in distress, soon accusing Aziz of rape. As the trial nears, the community is heavily divided, with each group outraged and finding its worst prejudices confirmed.
Genre: Drama
Subject: Colonialism
Releases
Date: 14 December 1984not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 163 mins Length: 14698 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: P.L.C. Thorn EMI Films Finance, Production Company: G.W. Films, In association with: John Heyman, In association with: Edward Sands, Home Box Office, Producer: John Brabourne, Producer: Richard Goodwin, Unit Manager (India): Rashid Abbassi, Production Manager: Jim Brennan, Production Manager: Shama Habibullah, Production Supervisor: Barrie Melrose, Locations: Eddie Fowlie, Production Assistant: Pat Pennelegion, Assistant Director: Patrick Cadell, Assistant Director: Christopher Figg, Assistant Director: Nick Laws, Assistant Director: Arundhati Rao, Assistant Director: Ajit Kumar, Screenplay: David Lean, Based on the novel by: E.M. Forster, Based on the play by: Santha Rama Rau, Director of Photography: Ernest Day, 2nd unit camera and effects: Robin Browne, Camera Operator: Roy Ford, Edited by: David Lean, Associate Editor: Eunice Mountjoy, Production Designer: John Box, Art Director: Leslie Tomkins, Art Director: Cliff Robinson, Art Director: Ram Yedekar, Art Director: Herbert Westbrook, Set Decorator: Hugh Scaife, [Art Department Illustrator]: Bill Stallion, Costume Designer: Judy Moorcroft, [Prospective Costume Designer - Pre-production]: Anthony Powell, Couturier: Germinal Rangel, Wardrobe Mistress: Rosemary Burrows, Wardrobe Master: Keith Morton, Make-up: Jill Carpenter, Make-up: Eric Allwright, Titles: Optical Film Effects, Opticals: Peerless Camera Company, Music: Maurice Jarre, Music Editor: Robin Clarke, Sound Recording: John W. Mitchell, Sound Recording: Graham V. Hartstone, Sound Recording: Nicolas Le Messurier, Sound Recording: Richard Lewzey, Sound Recording: Lionel Strutt, Sound Recording: Michael A. Carter, Boom Operator: Keith Pamlin, Sound Editor: Winston Ryder, Dialogue Editor: Archie Ludski, Sound Effects Editor: Jack Knight, Delhi Liaison: Mohini Banerjee, Indian Government Liaison: P.N. Parthasarathy, [Unit Publicist]: Diana Hawkins, Studio: Shepperton Studios
Cast
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Judy Davis (Adela Quested), Victor Banerjee (Dr Aziz), Peggy Ashcroft (Mrs Moore), James Fox (Richard Fielding), Alec Guinness (Professor Godbole), Nigel Havers (Ronny Heaslop), Richard Wilson (Turton, the Collector), Antonia Pemberton (Mrs Turton), Michael Culver (McBryde), Art Malik (Mahmoud Ali), Saeed Jaffrey (Hamidullah), Clive Swift (Major Callender), Ann Firbank (Mrs Callender), Roshan Seth (Amritrao), Sandra Hotz (Stella), Rashid Karapiet (Mr Das), H.S. Krishnamurthy (Hassan), Ishaq Bux (Selim), Moti Makan (guide), Mohammed Ashiq (Haq), Phyllis Bose (Mrs Leslie), Paul Anil (clerk of the court), Ashok Mandanna (Anthony), Z.H. Khan (Dr Panna Lal), Dina Pathak (Begum Hamidullah), Peter Hughes (P&O manager), Sally Kinghorne (ingénue), Mellan Mitchell (Indian businessman in court), Adam Blackwood (Mr Hadley), Peter Cellier ([captain, P&O liner])