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Ganges: River to Heaven (2003)

Name: Ganges: River to Heaven
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1970-01-01T01:00:00+01:00

Documentary | 79 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 79 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Gayle Ferraro

IMDb score: 7,3 (22)

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Ganges: River to Heaven plot

'Ganges: River to Heaven' paints a portrait of the Hindu hospice Kashi Labh Mukti Bhawan, founded in 1958 as a charity in the Indian city of Varanasi. Since its inception, it has always been full. The dying stay there for an average of 15 days. Twenty-four hours a day the name of God is sung to them, because "one who is dying must hear the name of God." The deceased from the home are burned on the bank of the river Ganges according to Hindu rituals. Director Gayle Ferraro pays as much attention to ritual cremation as to the meager daily wages of the lumberjacks, the worrying pollution of the Ganges and emerging tourism. And so she makes up the balance between a floating corpse with a crow pecking on the buttocks and an English tourist who lets the purchase of a souvenir deviate from the price.