| Title |
Viceroy's house. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Limited, ©2017. |
| Physical description |
1 DVD-video (approximately 102 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| General note |
Catalogued from container. |
| Universal : BD16707. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 2017. |
| Special features: behind the scenes of Viceroy's House. |
| "The end of an empire. The birth of two nations." -- Cover. |
| Credits note |
Directed by Gurinder Chadha ; screenplay by Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha and Moira Buffini ; produced by Deepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadra, Paul Mayeda Berges. |
| Performer note |
Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Michael Gambon. |
| Summary |
Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. A decision was taken to divide the country and create a new Muslim homeland: Pakistan. It was a decision whose consequences reverberate to this day. The end of an empire, the birth of two nations. |
| Subject |
Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, -- Earl,1900-1979 -- Drama |
| Mountbatten of Burma, Edwina Ashley Mountbatten, -- Countess,1901-1960 -- Drama |
| Rashtrapati Bhavan (New Delhi, India) -- Drama |
| Viceroys -- Great Britain -- Drama |
| Religions -- Relations -- Drama |
| Historical films |
| Biographical films |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Drama |
| Additional author |
Chadha, Gurinder screenwriter, film producer, film director. |
| Berges, Paul Mayeda screenwriter, film producer. |
| Buffini, Moira screenwriter. |
| Nayar, Deepak film producer. |
| Bonneville, Hugh actor. |
| Anderson, Gillian, 1968- actor. |
| Dayal, Manish, 1983- actor. |
| Qureshi, Huma, 1986- actor. |
| Gambon, Michael actor. |
| Anguille Productions production company |
| BBC Films production company |
| Bend It Films production company |
