Two (1964)
Movie | |
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Original title | Two |
Country of production | India |
original language | without |
Publishing year | 1964 |
length | 15 minutes |
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Director | Satyajit Ray |
script | Satyajit Ray |
music | Satyajit Ray |
camera | Soumendu Roy |
cut | Dulal Dutta |
occupation | |
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Two is a 1964 short film directed by Satyajit Ray .
action
The film shows the encounter between a rich boy in Kolkata and a boy from a slum whom he sees in front of his window. The rich boy has everything he wants; the poor almost nothing. Nevertheless, the former wants to demonstrate his superiority to the poor.
The poor boy tries in various ways to get in touch with someone of his or her age who lives in a villa, but when the slum boy plays on a flute, the other boy sounds him down with his toy trumpet; if he disguises himself in a mask and a spear, the rich man comes as a cowboy with a revolver; if he lets a little kite fly, the other shoots it down with an air rifle. Eventually he abandons his attempt to befriend the rich man. Satisfied with his demonstration, he is again playing alone with his toy robots. Only a short time later, the happy sound of the flute reaches him again. The boy begins to think about his defeat and two toy robots crash onto the floor.
background
Two was made as part of a series of three short films from India that were commissioned by US public television and produced under the name "Esso World Theater". The other two films presented Ravi Shankar and Shanti Bardhan's “Little Ballet Troupe” from Bombay . Ray was asked for a post in English that was set in Bengal, but he didn't like it. Instead he shot Two without words, based on his original script and accompanied only by his music.
Production designer was Bansi Chandragupta .
literature
- Section on Two in Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray - The Inner Eye , Revised Edition 2004, pp. 252-253
Web links
- Two in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos etc.
- Parable of the Two ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray - The Inner Eye , p. 252