The Mahabharata

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  • France Le Mahabharata
France / India / UK / Belgium / Australia / USA / Sweden / Finland / Norway / Portugal / Netherlands / Japan / Ireland / Iceland / Denmark, 1989, 171 min (TV version: 318 min)

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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 award-winning 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, contradictions, and dreams, filled with subplots which are alternately comic and tragic but always gloriously entertaining. (official distributor synopsis)

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