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Gandhi

Movie (1982)

Director Richard Attenborough tells with this epic, and elaborate produced film, the story of freedom and peace fighter Gandhi, the Indian who helped give Indians their independence. The film was nominated in eleven categories at the Academy Awards, winning eight in total.

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Released:	Dec 10th, 1982
Budget:	$22,000,000.00
Revenue:	N/A

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Ben Kingsley
plays Mohandas K. Gandhi

Candice Bergen
plays Margaret Bourke-White

Edward Fox
plays Gen. Reginald Dyer

John Gielgud
plays Lord Irwin

Trevor Howard
plays Judge Broomfield

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The last film of John Boxer and Sir John Clements.
300,000 extras appeared in the funeral sequence. About 200,000 were volunteers and 94,560 were paid a small fee (under contract). The sequence was filmed on 31st Jan 1981, the 33rd anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's funeral. 11 crews shot over 20,000 feet of film, which was pared down to 125 seconds in the final release.
Features Bernard Hill in a small role. Hill would go on to appear in a Best Picture Oscar winner for each of the following decades: Titanic and The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): (At 2:22:30) Footage of a speeding steam train is shown during Gandhi's visit to Britain in 1931. There were then only four railway companies in the UK, LMS, LNER, SR and GWR, all of whom proudly displayed their initials on their engine tenders. In the footage, however, there is only the smudge like the logo of British Rail, not formed until 1948.

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