Cinema
Jesus '71
Ekattorer Jishu
Nasiruddin Yousuff · 1993
Synopsis
In 1971, the war is raging but has not yet reached the villages. In Jelepara, the fishermen, mostly Christians, go to sell their fish at the market, and every Sunday Desmond, the church keeper, rings the bell that gathers the village around the priest. When the threat draws closer, most families want to flee; one man chooses to stay to help the others.
Context
The film is based on a novel by Shahriar Kabir; the screenplay is by Rafique Mahmud and the director, the music by Shimul Yousuf, and Selim Al Deen wrote the dialogue. Humayun Faridi plays Desmond, Pijush Bandyopadhyay the priest, himself a veteran of 1971. It was its author's first feature film; he returned to the same war eighteen years later, from a novel by Syed Shamsul Haq.
Who it is for
A film of a hundred minutes, without stars of commercial cinema, carried by stage actors.
Prizes and reception
It is regularly cited among the fiction films devoted to the war of liberation, from the earliest inventories of this cinema.