Director: Satyajit Ray
Script: Satyajit Ray after Premenda Mitra's novel Janaiko Kapuruser Kahini
Cinematographer: Soumendu Roy
Editing: Dulal Dutta
Music: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee Haradhan Banerjee
Production: R.D.B. Productions
Distribution:
Les Acacias
63, rue de Ponthieu
75008 Paris
France
Tel.: 0033 1 56 69 29 30
[email protected]
Year: 1965
Screening: 2019
DCP, Color, 64 min, O.V. Bengali with French Subtitles
As he is on his way to Hashimara to work on a film, Amitabha breaks down in a small town. He finds lodgings for the night with the owner of a tea plantation, whose wife Amitabha recognises. She is a woman he loved and left and who today is in the throes of an unhappy marriage. Amitabha suggests that the young woman leave with him.
“With The Coward I have tried to paint a triangular love affair, straightforward and modern, something which I have never done before. In the original screenplay Amitabha didn’t write for the cinema. The idea struck me to turn my hero into a script writer : I thought it would be an amusing, ironical situation for a script writer to get himself involved in a romantic affair like the sort of story he might write.” Satyajit Ray