CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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Gandhi posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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MOVIE1982 3h 11m GBR

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Its measured, morally focused portrait of Thomas More shares Gandhi’s interest in principled resistance, conscience under political pressure, and dignified performances.

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This broad, accessible biographical epic similarly traces a national leader’s long struggle against institutional injustice, balancing private sacrifice with a country’s political transformation.

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Why this pick

A sweeping, performance-led biography of a transformative activist, with the same sense of an individual’s evolving convictions intersecting with an era’s urgent social conflicts.

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Its focused account of civil-rights organizing echoes Gandhi’s commitment to collective action and moral leadership, while retaining a calm, solemn attention to the human cost of protest.

CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

On Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi,after an evening prayer, an elderly Gandhi is helped out for his evening walk to meet a large number of greeters and admirers. One visitor, Nathuram Godse, shoots him point blank in the chest. Gandhi exclaims, "Oh, God!", and then falls dead.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley

Mahatma Gandhi

Edward Fox

Edward Fox

General Dyer

Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard

Judge Broomfield

Ian Charleson

Reverend Charlie Andrews

Geraldine James

Geraldine James

Mirabehn

Terrence Hardiman

Terrence Hardiman

Ramsay MacDonald

Michael Bryant

Principal Secretary

Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths

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