(Gandhi [de])
UK / India 1982
d: Richard Attenborough
Columbia Tristar Home Video (Region 2 uk)
sc: Robert Bolt, John Briley
c: Billy Williams, Ronnie Taylor (Technicolor, Panavision)
e: John Bloom
pd: Stuart Craig
m: George Fenton, Ravi Shankar
p: Richard Attenborough (Carolina Bank / Goldcrest Films International / Indo-British International Film Investors / National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC)
w: Ben Kingsley (Mahatma Gandhi), Candice Bergen (Margaret Bourke-White), Edward Fox (Gen. Dyer), John Gielgud (Lord Irwin), Trevor Howard (Judge Broomfield), John Mills (Lord Chelmsford), Martin Sheen (Walker), Rohini Hattangady (Kasturba Gandhi), Ian Charleson (Charlie Andrews), Athol Fugard (Gen. Smuts), Saeed Jaffrey (Sardar Patel), Geraldine James (Mirabehn), Alyque Padamsee (Mohamed Ali Jinnah), Amrish Puri (Khan), Roshan Seth (Pandit Nehru), Daniel Day-Lewis (Colin)
pr: 30 Nov 1982
aw: Academy Awards 1983 Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role Ben Kingsley; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration; Best Cinematography; Best Costume Design; Best Director; Best Film Editing; Best Picture; Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen; Nominated Oscar Best Makeup; Best Music, Original Score; Best Sound • American Cinema Editors 1983 Eddie Best Edited Feature Film • BAFTA Awards 1983 Best Actor Ben Kingsley; Best Direction; Best Film; Best Newcomer Ben Kingsley; Best Supporting Actress Rohini Hattangadi • British Society of Cinematographers 1982 Best Cinematography Award • David di Donatello Awards 1983 David Miglior Film Straniero; Migliore Produttore Straniero; European David • Directors Guild of America 1983 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures • Golden Globes 1983 Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Ben Kingsley; Best Director - Motion Picture; Best Foreign Film; Best Screenplay - Motion Picture; New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male Ben Kingsley • Guild of German Art House Cinemas 1985 Guild Film Award - Gold Ausländischer Film • Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 1983 Silver Ribbon Regista del Miglior Film Straniero • London Critics Circle Film Awards 1984 Actor of the Year Ben Kingsley • Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1982 Best Actor Ben Kingsley • National Board of Review, USA 1982 Best Actor Ben Kingsley; Best Picture - English Language • New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1982 Best Actor Ben Kingsley; Best Film
rt: 183:25 (+4%PAL= 190) min
dvd-rl: 06 Sep 2001
ar: 2.33:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround • German Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
st: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
supp: Collector's Edition
• Ben Kingsley Talks About Gandhi (20 min)
• Original Newsreel Footage (10 min): Gandhi Goes to England; Gandhi's Farewell Talk in Europe; Mahatma Gandhi Begins Death Fast; Gandhi Talks: First Talking Picture Ever Made by India's Famous Leader
• The Making of Gandhi Photo Montage (5 min)
• The Words of Mahatma Gandhi (2 min)
• Weblink to Official Gandhi Website
• Theatrical Trailer (5 min)
• Filmographies
• Production Notes
By virtue of its subject matter, and of the prodigious effort that has gone into its production, Gandhi has to be considered one of the major British films of the year. Its subject is an Indian spiritual leader almost unknown to today's Western youth, who not only preached a more sophisticated and forceful version of the pacifist ethic than ever flowered in the '60s, but succeeded in using it to help liberate his country and change its political history. Of course the film raises more questions than it comes near to answering, but its faults rather pale beside the epic nature of its theme, and Kingsley's performance in the central role is outstanding.
— FD, Time Out Film Guide
