Pink saris
| Movie | |
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| German title | Pink saris |
| Original title | Pink saris |
| Country of production | India and Great Britain |
| original language | Hindi and English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 96 minutes |
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| Director | Kim Longinotto |
| script | Kim Longinotto |
| production | Amber Latif and Girjashanker Vohra |
| music | Midival Punditz |
| cut | Ollie Huddleston |
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The semi-documentary feature film Pink Saris was produced in 2010 by British filmmaker Kim Longinotto .
Content (summary)
Pink Saris documents the work of the Indian activist Sampat Pal Devi and the so-called Gulabi Gang in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . The film's title refers to the saris in pink red ( pink ) color, which Sampat Pal Devi and activists, the Gulabi Gang dress. " In India it is a curse to be on the lowest step of the social ladder, but it is at least as difficult to be a woman, " says Sampat Pal Devi, describing her experiences as a mother and activist in one of the poorest regions of India.
background
Premiered Pink Saris on 14 September 2010 during the Toronto International Film Festival . Distributed by Women Make Movies worldwide , Pink Saris was produced by Vixen Films .
Awards
- 2011: Hong Kong International Film Festival, Humanitarian Award (Documentary) for Outstanding Documentary
Reviews
“In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sampat Pal fights in an impressive, clever and self-confident way against the forced marriages of young girls, the violence against women in families, the humiliation of the“ untouchables ”, who are still deprived of the simplest rights. The way Sampat Pal does this is one of great courage and sometimes great disrespect for men, society and religion. Pink Saris is one of the most vibrant, powerful documentaries of the year, cinematic news that no one should overlook. "
“The second film,“ Pink Saris ”(2010), also focuses on a strong woman: Sampat Pal, the founder of the Gulabi Gang, a group of women who, in pink clothing, help themselves and others to justice. However, this film only focuses on one person - and so it is good that one learns in a book article that the Gulabi Gang is not a one-woman show, but has already reached the middle class: As a supporter of the fundamentalist Hindu group in 2009 Sri Ram Sena beat schoolgirls ready for hospital use, called a "Pink Underwear Resistance" on the Internet to protest with pink-colored knickers ("already used if possible"). The Sri Ram Sena office sank into 20,000 pink underpants. "
Web links
- Pink Saris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Collection of reviews on filmfestival-der-menschenrechte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Kaiser: Gulabi gang runs the pink sari revolution . Spiegel Online . March 30, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ↑ a b PINK SARIS . Viennale . Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ↑ Brigitte Mathern: Book review library of the resistance: Phoolan Devi, the Indian bandit queen of hearts . WOZ The weekly newspaper . March 7, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2014.