Durga

Durga

1939 · 135 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama

Rural melodrama about Durga, an adolescent child of nature, living with her aged mother Heera. Unable to get the medicine required to prevent her mother's death, one misfortune after another befalls the heroine in spite of the sympathies of the newly arrived village doctor, Jawahar.

Directed by Franz Osten · Written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

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