Movie
A Passage to India
Overview
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Details
- Release date
- 1984-12-14
- Runtime
- 163 min
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- EMI Films, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwyn Productions, HBO Films
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Judy Davis as Adela Quested
- Victor Banerjee as Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed
- Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore
- James Fox as Richard Fielding
- Alec Guinness as Professor Godbole
- Nigel Havers as Ronny Heaslop
- Richard Wilson as Mr. Turton
- Antonia Pemberton as Mrs. Turton
- Michael Culver as Major McBryde
- Art Malik as Mahmoud Ali
- Saeed Jaffrey as Hamidullah
- Clive Swift as Major Callendar
Crew
- David Lean - Director
- David Lean - Screenplay
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