A Death For Peace

This is a 52-min documentary on the assassination, A Death For Peace - Mahatma Gandhi and The Impossible Quest (2005), by Arnaud Mandagaran. A student of philosophy at Nanterre during the 'May 68' revolt in France, Arnaud (b.1949) travelled across South Asia in the early 1970s. Practically all his films are on South Asian themes - India: Turmoils of a Century (1993), A Dynasty in Ceylon (2003), The Making Of 'The River (2002), The Saga of The Bhuttos (2008), etc.
Besides archives, this film has a rare interview with 87-year-old Gopal Godse, co-accused and brother of Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse, only months before he died, and perceptive analyses by two exceptional scholars of the period, David Hardiman and Christophe Jaffrelot.
See Arnaud Mandagaran discussing this film with 11-graders in Paris, at the Lycée Lavoisier, on Ahimsa Day 30th Jan 2006 (last 5 mins.):
http://www.ahimsaonline.org/video.html
This class, having worked on Gandhi for a year with their teacher (in video) spent 2 weeks in Delhi, thanks to an exchange with the Sanskriti School. They discuss Gandhi, Arnaud's film, their Indian experience (also the invitation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's home and their conversation with him).

Digital Mastering: Peter Rühe - http://peter.ruehe.net

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• ahimsa
• mahatma
• gandhi
• ghandi
• peace
• nonviolence
• non-violence
• luther
• king