Film
An Unfashionable Tragedy
1975 · 27m · Documentary
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Overview
In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy. It contains harrowing scenes of starving children but also puts the horrors into a geopolitical context. This is Pilger’s first documentary to highlight his theme of expendability, whereby countries with no oil, strategic value or military power are considered unimportant to the superpowers. Bangladesh, he points out, is not one of the United States’s “client states” on a priority list to receive its surplus food.
Cast
Crew
- John IngramDirector · Producer
Details
- Release date
- January 2, 1975
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 27m
- Genres
- Documentary
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