A tree and its branches

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Movie
German title A tree and its branches
Original title শাখা-প্রশাখা
(Shakha Proshakha)
Country of production India
original language Bengali
Publishing year 1990
length 121 minutes
Rod
Director Satyajit Ray
script Satyajit Ray
production Satyajit Ray Productions, Gérard Depardieu for DD Productions , Daniel Toscan du Plantier for Erato Films
music Satyajit Ray , Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven
camera Barun Raha
cut Dulal Dutta
occupation

A tree and its branches ( Bengali : শাখা-প্রশাখা , śākhā-praśākhā ) is a 1990 Indian film by Satyajit Ray .

action

Anandamohan Majumdar has become the most respected citizen of his city, which was renamed Anandapur after him 10 years ago, through sheer honest work. He lives with his 93-year-old senile father and his second oldest son Proshanto, who is mentally damaged after an accident. His three other sons work in good positions in Kolkata . Anandamohan believes that through honesty and hard work one can achieve something and his sons act just like him; Its maxims are Work is worship (work ennobles) and Honesty is the best policy (honesty lasts the longest) .

To celebrate his 70th birthday, he suffers a heart attack at a public ceremony held in his honor . His family, consisting of his eldest son Probodh with his wife Uma, his third son Prabir with his wife Tapati and the 5-year-old grandson Dingo and the youngest son Protap, are traveling from Kolkata. You stay a week while the anandamohan has to stay in bed.

The characters of the sons quickly emerge. At dinner, Probodh accuses Prabir of being a gambler and betting all his money on horse racing . Prabir accuses Probodh of tax evasion in order to be able to finance the dissolute lifestyle of his family. The mutual allegations turn out to be true because honesty doesn't pay off . Proshanto suffers from the fact that others are working and that he is condemned to do nothing. Protap quit his job and joined a theater company after discovering that his corporate partner is demanding large-scale bribes from business partners. At a picnic, he tells his brothers about it because he is against corruption .

The brothers fulfill their visit to their father more as a duty than out of inner conviction. The lack of character of the brothers is particularly evident through their indifference to their 93-year-old, completely senile grandfather. They don't even bother to visit him in his room, where he is guarded by a nurse.

On the day of departure, Dingo tells his grandfather what he learned about honest and dishonest money during the week. Anandamohan is deeply shocked and his initial enthusiasm for his sons has gone. When the other Proshanto went to his father for the first time after the departure, he was happy with tears in his eyes that he had “at least one more unspoiled son”.

background

The production of this film was co-financed by Gérard Depardieu's company DD Productions. Satyajit Ray emerged again as an auteur filmmaker with the film adaptation of this original screenplay after the Henrik Ibsen adaptation Ganashatru (1989) . After his own heart attack in 1984, his health was in poor health and almost exclusively limited to studio production, but with this film he succeeded in a chamber play that juxtaposes new and old values ​​of the business world and allows insight into the depths of a family that looks flawless to the outside world.

Reviews

“An autobiographical family saga about everyday corruption not only in Indian society. The old work of the moralist Ray, staged in a slow rhythm and with all the sadness ending hopefully, reveals the gap between the generations and the unsaid, the lack of understanding behind the words. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A tree and its branches. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 3, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used