THE HUNGRY STONES (Church of Film)

A young Bengali bureaucrat is assigned to a remote Muslim region of India. There he takes up residence in a glorious, half-ruined ancient palace, which the locals warn him is haunted. Modern and skeptical, he does not take them seriously—but as ghostly visits occur during the night, he is soon bewitched by the palace. And by one its ghosts, an Arab dancer.

Tapan Sinha’s THE HUNGRY STONES, based on a story by R. Tagore, is a rare piece of Bengali cinema; a masterful ghostly romance full of haunting passages, stirring emotions, and lingering regrets.