• Jan 24, 1990
  • 318 min
  • Full-HD

The Mahabharata (1990)

One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.

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Australia Belgium Denmark Finland France Iceland Ireland Japan Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Portugal Sweden United Kingdom United States of America
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MP Productions Channel 4 Television The Brooklyn Academy of Music

Vittorio Mezzogiorno

Arjuna

Bruce Myers

Ganesha; Krishna

Miriam Goldschmidt

Kunti

Robert Langdon Lloyd

Vyasa

Andrzej Seweryn

Yudhishthira

Yoshi Oida

Drona

Tuncel Kurtiz

Shakuni

Georges Corraface

Duryodhana

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