Phantom India
Phantom India

Phantom India

1969 1 Seasons 7 Episodes ⭐ 5.4 Documentary

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Reflections in a Lens

How can you capture in the lens of a film camera the essence of a country so diverse, so variegated, and so paradoxical

EP 2

A Barbarian in Madras

Southern India pretends to know nothing about the North. Its language is different, its very nature too. In Madras Louis

EP 3

Holy India

Louis Malle finds a devotion to a spiritual life that transcends the poverty of the material one and discovers that in a

EP 4

Shadow Without Substance

Drifting at random through the numberless villages of the South, Louis Malle finds himself in a timeless, fantastic, and

EP 5

Invisible Frontiers

Although officially abolished, the caste system has not ceased to exert a strong influence on Indian social life. It is

EP 6

Cults, Creeds and Clans

Turning aside from the traditional India of the Hindus, Louis Malle pans his camera on to the India of forgotten tribes

EP 7

Where East Goes West

Bombay. It's the last lap of Louis Malle 's journey through India and already it smacks of the West. Bombay is a city on

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