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India: Matri Bhumi is a 1959 Italian documentary film-fiction hybrid film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The film combines the Neorealist style Rossellini helped develop in his native Italy with poetic voice-over narration.
Commissioned by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, INDIA: MATRI BHUMI takes us beyond the bustling streets of the cities and into the country’s rural villages, where humans, nature, and animals coexist even as the forces of industrial modernization encroach.
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The film consists of four episodes through which Roberto Rossellini’s impressions and feelings about India and its society emerge. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema. See what’s playing
Jan 4, 2013 · India: Matri Bhumi -- (Movie Clip) This Spirit Of Tolerance Narration by Italian actor Vincenzo Talarico, the opening of Ricardo Rossellini's documentary India: Matri Bhumi (Or India: The Motherland), 1959, commissioned by Prime Minister Nehru to mark the 10th anniversary of independence.
FILM OF THE DAY: India: Matri Bhumi (1959) Acknowledging Our Discontent. 1.58K subscribers. Subscribed. 3. 220 views 3 years ago. Roberto Rossellini's India: Matri Bhumi ...more.
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What begins as an apparent documentary travelogue of India becomes - around the moment Rossellini's camera lingers on the workers bathing their tired elephants - a hypnotic poem about humanity and nature. In that moment with the elephants, the two become one.
