ASA 🎥📽🎬 Gandhi (1982) a film directed by Richard Attenborough with Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Edward Fox

Gandhi (1982) Synopsis / Plot Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up with the unjust political system, he joins the Indian Congress Party, which encourages social change through passive resistance. When his "subversive" activities land him in jail, masses of low-skilled workers strike to support his non-violent yet revolutionary position. Back in India, Gandhi renounces the Western way of life and struggles to organize Indian labor against British colonialism. A strike costs many British soldiers their lives, so the crown responds by slaughtering 1,500 Indians. Enraged, the ascetic, spiritual leader continues to preach pacifism until he has lead India out from under the tyranny of British imperialism. Awards 1982: 8 Academy Awards, including Movie, Director, Actor (Ben Kingsley). 11 Nominations 1982: 5 Golden Globes: Best Foreign Film, Director, Screenplay, Actor, New Star (Kingsley) 1982: 5 BAFTA Awards, including Best Director & Film. 16 Nominations 1982: National Board of Review: Best Film 1982: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Film & Best Actor (Ben Kingsley). 3 Nominations 1982: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Actor (Kingsley). 3 Nominations 1982: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Best Director 1982: David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Film & Best Foreign Producer. 3 Nom. Critics' reviews