Letter from the Wife
Streer Patra
India
1972
85 Min
Black and White
Bengali
A young wife in a respectable family goes against her family to save a young girl from the atrocities of the society. Based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore, the film won the National Award for the Best Bengali Film in 1972. The original short story was written in the form of a letter from the wife to her husband. —KG