Boatman

Year: 1994

Runtime: 55 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Gianfranco Rosi

Documentary

In a series of intimate portraits, director Gianfranco Rosi follows his helmsman Gopal on a boat voyage down India’s sacred Ganges. The film records the river’s rhythm as tourists, locals and workers bathe, pray, labor and conduct funeral rites, revealing the continuous cycle of life and death that shapes everyday Indian existence.

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