Boatman (1994) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Release, runtime and language

1994 · 55 mins · Italian

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Directed by

Gianfranco Rosi

Starring

Gopal Maji

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.