Agantuk (The Stranger)
Indian cinema legend Satyajit Ray’s final film (before his death in 1992) receives an all too rare screening. A comic dissection of familial trust, honesty and fragile belief systems, Agantuk is a major work from a Bengali great (based on one of Ray’s own short stories). This matinee screening will be preceded by a filmed introduction by cinema specific writer and broadcaster Mark Cousins.
GFT, Glasgow on Sun 13 Sep.
The Stranger (Agantuk)

- 1991
- India
- 120 min
- U
- Directed by: Satyajit Ray
- Written by: Satyajit Ray
- Cast: Utpal Dutt, Bikramjit, Mamata Shankar, Deepankar De, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Promod Ganguli, Rabi Ghosh
The final film from master filmmaker Ray is a parable of greed and mistrust, set in Calcutta, and following the fates of a family who receive a letter from an uncle who left home some 30 years previously. But is the man who arrives the real thing or an…