The Pandavas and the Kauravas are two rival castes divided by age-old hatred and jealousy. The Kauravas fear that one of the Pandavas will take the King of Hastinapura’s place on his death. When the god Krishna predicts that a Pandava will indeed reign, both sides start getting ready to go to war. An abridged film version of the play based on sacred Indian texts that turned Peter Brook into a film legend and that was screened at the Mercat de les Flors in 1985.
Belgium, 1989
Dir: Peter Brook, based on a screenplay adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière, Peter Brook and Marie Hélène Estienne. With: Robert Langdon Lloyd, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bruce Myers, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn and Georges Corraface, among others.
