The Stranger
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Produced by National Film Development Corporation of India, Erato Films
A philosophical chamber piece about suspicion and worldviews, where a mysterious stranger's tales gradually dissolve a family's certainties about identity, belonging, and how one should live.
A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
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