Genres:Drama | Romance Countries:Canada | India Directors:Dick Clement Actors:Michael Caine | Valerie Perrine | Brenda Vaccaro | Leonard Rossiter | Billy Connolly | Dennis Dugan | Fulton Mackay | Jimmie Walker | Dick Shawn | Fred Gwynne | Trevor Laird | Chris Tummings | Stefan Kalipha | Alan Igbon | Kelvin Omard
The year is 1938, India is ruled by the British, and it is around this time that Mohandas K. Gandhi has arrived from Africa to begin his tryst with the British, as well as battle the traditions that bind the Hindus. Not yet in her teens, Chuyia is married to a much older and sickly male, who shortly after the marriage, passes away. Chuyia is returned unceremoniously to her parents' house, and from there she is taken to the holy city of Banaras and left in the care of a wide assortment of widows who live at "the widows' house," shunned by the rest of the community. Chuyia believes that her mother will come to take her home. Here she meets several elderly women, including the head of the house, Madhumati; a quiet, confident woman named Shakuntala; and a gorgeous young woman named Kalyani — all widows. Chuyia does not know that according to Holy Hindu Scriptures she has been destined to live here for the rest of her life, for when a woman's husband dies', she has three options: One, to marry her husband's younger brother, if his family permits; two, to kill herself on his funeral pyre; three, to live a life of celibacy, discipline, and solitude amongst her own kind. A new law in India which permits a widow to re-marry is not popular, and it is these customs and openly welcoming the lower castes that will pit Gandhiji against his very own people, apart from struggling with the British to leave India. Kalyani meets and falls in love with young Narayan, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, who wants to marry her, despite his mother's protests. The question remains, can Kalyani marry the man she loves? Will he still want to marry her when he knows everything about her? And is Chuyia destined to live the rest of her life as a widow among shunned widows? Download:DivXiPod
Genres:Drama | Family Countries:USA Directors:Catherine Hardwicke Actors:Keisha Castle-Hughes | Oscar Isaac | Hiam Abbass | Shaun Toub | Ciarán Hinds | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Stanley Townsend | Alexander Siddig | Nadim Sawalha | Eriq Ebouaney | Stefan Kalipha | Alessandro Giuggioli | Farida Ouchani | Saïd Amadis | Maria Giovanna Donzelli
Australian-born Whale Rider sensation and Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes stars opposite Oscar Isaac in Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke's dramatic account of the Annunciation, and the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph to give birth to baby Jesus. House of Sand and Fog's Shohreh Aghdashloo co-stars in a film with a screenplay by The Rookie and Finding Forrester scribe Mike Rich. Filmed in the village of Matera, Italy (a locale that has remained virtually untouched by modern progress and also served as the backdrop for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ), and Quarzazate, Morocco, former production designer Hardwicke's film strives for authenticity in telling the Bible's most treasured tale. Download:DivXiPod
Genres: Drama | Romance
