How Death Came to Earth

Directed by Ishu Patel · 1971

An Indian legend of gods, suns, moons and humankind, told through rich painted and cut-out animation, explaining how death first came into the world.

Ishu Patel's lush, gently paced retelling of an Indian myth is a feast of colour and design.

A legend from India, interpreted by a filmmaker from that country. It is a story of gods and men, of suns and moons and Earth, interpreted with an animation style and a richness of colour and design as arresting to the e

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