Phantom India - Season 1 Episode 6 Cults, Creeds and Clans

Name: Phantom India
Genre: Documentary
Released: 05 Sep 1969
Rating: 5.70
Cast: Louis Malle

1969-09-05 France 363 minutes.

5.70 10 votes

Documentary yoga india communism caste system

Episodes
Info
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Season - Episode

1 Season 1 Jul 25, 1969

1 - 1

Reflections in a Lens Jul 25, 1969
1 - 2

A Barbarian in Madras Aug 01, 1969
1 - 3

Holy India Aug 08, 1969
1 - 4

Shadow Without Substance Aug 15, 1969
1 - 5

Invisible Frontiers Aug 22, 1969
1 - 6

Cults, Creeds and Clans Aug 29, 1969
1 - 7

Where East Goes West Sep 05, 1969

Overview

Turning aside from the traditional India of the Hindus, Louis Malle pans his camera on to the India of forgotten tribes and tiny sects. He discovers two versions of Utopia: one, the Ashram at Pondicherry whose disciples claim through yoga to have discovered the secret of the ultimate meaning of life; the other, the natural gentle life of the Todas, a people who live in total sexual freedom, without laws, leaders or class system, at peace with themselves and with their neighbours, and whose only problem is that they are doomed by the advance of civilisation.

Year 1969

Studio France 2, ORTF Télévision

Director

Crew Louis Malle (Writer), Suzanne Baron (Editor), Elliott Kastner (Producer), Louis Malle (Director), Guy Bechtel (Writer), Claude Nedjar (Producer)

Popularity 0.7709

Language French