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Father, Son and the Holy War
Anand Patwardhan | India | 1994 | 120 min. | documentary

By examining the factional violence which has ravished India since independence, Father, Son and the Holy War takes us to the very foundations of hate and religion. The film explores the "purifying" rituals, riots, and wife-burning and the roots of this systematic violence through its relationship to the traditional Indian machismo of marauding warriors and pillaging princes. Patwardhan mixes often horrifying footage with a philosophical mood reminiscent of a "road movie" that leaves the viewer face-to-face with a fascism chillingly parallel to the larger political movements of our time.

New York Premiere, 1995 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films, 153 Waverly Place, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10014, Tel: (212) 727-1711 Fax: (212) 989-7649.

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