Ernest Kleinberg Films: Gaon Sathis (Friends of the Village)

Masterpiece documentary presents a closeup portrait of rural village life in India.
Tells the moving story of a husband-and-wife pair of volunteers from the city who move into a small village in Uttar Pradesh intending to introduce literacy and better farming methods -- and who then face unexpected challenges. Produced in 1953.
Ernest Kleinberg (1910-1980) was born in Breslau, Germany. He grew up in Vienna, where he became a photographer for American news agencies and Life magazine. In March 1938 he was arrested by the Gestapo for photographing Hitler's march into Vienna. Released six weeks later thanks to pressure from American friends, he escaped to New York where he resumed photography and rescued his entire family from Nazi Austria. In the early 1950s he became a self-taught film producer. He subsequently completed more than 25 documentary movies.
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