City of Joy

By Roland Joffé

Synopsis

A young, rich and ide­al­ist Amer­i­can sur­geon decides to leave every­thing and arrives in Cal­cut­ta. Stripped by hood­lums on his arrival, he is saved by a Ben­gali farmer whom famine has dri­ven in the city. Togeth­er, they dis­cov­er a dis­pen­sary run by an Eng­lish woman…

By : Roland Joffé
Duration : 2h12
With : Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins, Shabana Azmi, Ayesha Dharker
Type : Fiction
Nationality : UK & France

Pro­duc­tion : Jake Eberts, Roland Jof­fé & Iain Smith
Script : Mark Med­off
Cast : Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins, Sha­bana Azmi, Ayesha Dhark­er

In Eng­lish with French sub­ti­tles

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