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The Branches of the Tree (1990)
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Overview
When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
Length 130 minutes
Actors
Ajit Banerjee | Soumitra Chatterjee | Haradhan Bandopadhyay | Dipankar Dey | Ranjit Mallick | Lily Chakravarty | Mamata Shankar | Soham Chakraborty | Promod Ganguli | Bhishma Guhathakurta | Sunil Gupta Kabiraj | Soven Lahiri | Tarun Mitra | Ashok Mukherjee | Kamu Mukherjee | Pradip Mukherjee | Samaresh Mukhopadhyay | Rajaram Yagnik