The Adversary

IMDb link: 0066237
IMDb rating: 8.1 (2,090 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee, Soumitra Bannerjee and others

Release date: 27 Oct 1970
Release year: 1970
Runtime: 110 minutes
Country: India
Keywords: college, bookend scenes, brother brother relationship, mother daughter relationship, family relationships, morality, mother son relationship, ex student, puritanical morality, widow

Plot:

A young man, newly graduated from college is unable to find meaningful employment. He lives in a crowded apartment with his widowed mother, a revolutionary brother and a younger, well-employed sister. Family frictions and his continuing unsuccessful quest for a job place an unbearable strain on him causing him to hallucinate. The pressure, magnified by the tense and impersonal setting of Calcutta, builds to a devastating conclusion. Hindu Neorealism?

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