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Filmmaker · Bangladesh

Alamgir Kabir

Died in 1989

Alamgir Kabir was born on 26 December 1938 in Rangamati. A pupil at Hooghly College and then at Dhaka Collegiate School, he studied physics at the University of Dhaka and left in 1958 for England to study electrical engineering at Oxford, where a film by Bergman turned him towards cinema. He returned in 1966, campaigned on the left against the regime of Ayub Khan, made documentaries during the war of independence and in 1981-1982 coordinated the introductory film courses at the government institute. He drowned on 20 January 1989 in the Jamuna, at the Nagarbari ferry, on his way back from a seminar.

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