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Parable of the Two
| Year | 1964 |
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| Producer | Esso World Theater |
| Distributor | Esso World Theater (in public domain) |
| Screenplay | Satyajit Ray |
| Photography | Soumendu Roy |
| Editor | Dulal Dutta |
| Art Director | Bansi Chandragupta |
| Music | Satyajit Ray |
| Sound | Sujit Sarkar |
| Length | 16 min. |
| Black & White |
Cast:
Ravi Kiran and a street child
This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. Their rivalry (a kite shot down by a toy rifle, for example) concludes with the opposition between the world of noise (the toys inside the house) and that of music (the street child's flute).
