Director Ulrich Grossenbacher, Damaris Luethi
Country/Production Switzerland
Release 1997
Length 63 mins
Format Colour / DVD or VHS / PAL / All region
Location India, Nagercoil, South Indian / Asia
Ethnic Group Indian
Order No RAI-200.255
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The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz, once a fishtrader and now a healer and magician; and Muthiah, a videographer of upper class weddings — living in a neighbourhood in Nagercoil, a south Indian town. The aim of the video is to show the persons not as representatives of homogeneous masses, but to acknowledge them as individuals who nurse their own specific worries and strategies in a changing world. The protagonists thus themselves comment about their own lives and actions.
