Trishna | |
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![]() Official release poster of Trishna | |
Directed by | Michael Winterbottom |
Written by | Michael Winterbottom |
Based on | Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy |
Produced by | Michael Winterbottom Melissa Parmenter Sunil Bohra |
Starring | Freida Pinto Riz Ahmed |
Cinematography | Marcel Zyskind |
Edited by | Mags Arnold |
Music by | Amit Trivedi Shigeru Umebayashi |
Production companies | Head Gear Films UK Film Council Bankside Films Revolution Films Metrol Technology VTR Film Investments Bob Film Sweden Film i Väst Swedish Film Institute Anurag Kashyap Films |
Distributed by | Artificial Eye (UK) |
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Running time | 109 minutes[1] |
Countries | United Kingdom Sweden India |
Language | English[1] |
Trishna is a 2011 drama film, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom, and starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed. A British-Swedish-Indian co-production, it is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It is Winterbottom's third Hardy adaptation, after Jude and The Claim. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2011, and after some further festival appearances it saw its first cinema release in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 9 March 2012.[2]