Agantuk

Agantuk
Agantuk
Poster
Directed bySatyajit Ray
Screenplay bySatyajit Ray
Based onAtithi (short story)
by Satyajit Ray
Produced bySatyajit Ray
StarringUtpal Dutt
Mamata Shankar
Deepankar De
Dhritiman Chatterjee
Promod Ganguli
Rabi Ghosh
CinematographyBarun Raha
Edited byDulal Dutta
Music bySatyajit Ray
Production
companies
NFDC
DD Productions
Distributed byArtificial Eye (UK)
Release dates
  • 1991 (1991) (India)
  • 22 May 1992 (1992-05-22) (US)
  • 19 November 1993 (1993-11-19) (UK)
Running time
120 minutes
CountriesIndia
France
LanguageBengali

Agantuk (lit.'Guest'; known by its English title The Stranger) is a 1991 Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray.[1] Notable for being Ray's last film, it was based on one of his own short stories, Atithi. A joint Indo-French production, it received financial backing from companies such as Gérard Depardieu's DD Productions and Canal+.[2]

  1. ^ Surendar Chawdhary (2011). The Pather Panchali of Satyajit Ray: An Illustrated Study. McFarland. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-7864-6353-4.
  2. ^ IMDb: Company credits for Agantuk Archived 21 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2013-05-08