Distant Thunder
Plot: Gangacharan is the new Brahmin of a village, where he assumes various duties: teaching, organizing religious events, and trying to prevent epidemics. But in that year 1943, war is raging (as reminded by the planes occasionally heard flying over the countryside), and a major famine is under way

Soumitra Chatterjee
Bobita
Sandhya Roy
Chitra Banerjee
Noni Ganguly
Monu Mukherjee
Satyajit Ray
Soumendu Roy
Dulal Dutta
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay