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Earth (1947)

19471h 41mdir. Deepa MehtaIndia, Canadadrama filmromance film

Note: this print runs 101 minutes against a recorded 110 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Maia Sethna, Shabana Azmi, Kitu Gidwani, Arif Zakaria, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Directed by Deepa Mehta

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Earth (released in India as 1947: Earth) is a 1998 Indo-Canadian period romance drama film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India (1991, US; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, UK), set during the 1947 partition of India. Earth is the second instalment of Mehta's Elements trilogy, preceded by Fire (1996) and followed by Water (2005). It was India's entry for the 1999 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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