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The Mahabharata (1990)

The Mahabharata (1990)

Drama War
Release Date: 1990, January 24
Directors: Peter Brook
Countries: Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, United States of America
Production: MP Productions, Channel 4 Television, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Les Productions du 3ème Etage
Cast: Andrzej Seweryn, Erika Alexander, Jeffery Kissoon, Yoshi Oida, Hélène Patarot, Georges Corraface, Bruce Myers, Urs Bihler, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bakary Sangaré, Tapa Sudana, Tuncel Kurtiz

Overview:

One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.

Keywords:

mythology india battle hinduism dysfunctional family arjuna