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Duration
27 min
Director
John Ingram
Rating
Rating not available
Release Date
January 2, 1975
An Unfashionable Tragedy
Original title: An Unfashionable Tragedy
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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.
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John Pilger
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