Court
(DVD) 

A Zoo Entertainment production ©2014.

Special features: Three behind-the-scenes featurettes on casting, inspiration, and music, plus the trailer.

"Produced with the support of the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam"--Credits.

"Dedicated to VK"--Onscreen closing credits.

Director of photography, Mrinal Desai ; editor, Rikhav Desai ; music, Sambhaji Bhagat.

Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi, Shirish Pawar, Usha Bane.

"Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and harrowing display of institutional incompetence, with endless procedural delays, coached witnesses for the prosecution, and obsessive privileging of arcane colonial law over reason and mercy. What truly distinguishes Court, however, is Tamhane's brilliant ensemble cast of professional and nonprofessional actors; his affecting mixture of comedy and tragedy; and his naturalist approach to his characters and to Indian society as a whole, rich with complexity and contradiction."--Container.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD; NTSC region 1; widescreen presentation (2.35:1, 16x9); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround; color.

Dialogue in Marathi, Hindi, English and Gujarati; optional English subtitles and English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; closed-captioned.

Winner of 29 international awards.