An Unfashionable Tragedy

Overview

In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy. It contains harrowing scenes of starving children but also puts the horrors into a geopolitical context. This is Pilger’s first documentary to highlight his theme of expendability, whereby countries with no oil, strategic value or military power are considered unimportant to the superpowers. Bangladesh, he points out, is not one of the United States’s “client states” on a priority list to receive its surplus food.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 2, 1975

Original language

English

Cast

John Pilger

Director

John Ingram

Producer

John Ingram

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt4671052