Film

Rabindranath Tagore

1961 · 54m · Documentary · History

'His mortal remains perished, but he left behind him a heritage which no fire could consume.'

IMDb

7.2

Docudrama about the life of Rabindranath Tagore, Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art, becoming in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The film was released during Tagore's birth centenary year.

Satyajit Ray

Narrator (voice)

Rabindranath Tagore

Self (Archive footage)

Raya Chatterjee

Sovanlal Ganguli

Smaran Ghosal

Purnendu Mukherjee

Kallol Bose

Subir Bose

Phani Nan

Norman Ellis

• Satyajit RayDirector · Screenplay
• Soumendu RoyDirector of Photography
• Jyotirindra MoitraOriginal Music Composer
• Dulal DuttaEditor

Release date

July 21, 1961

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

54m

Genres

Documentary, History