Fresh
In playing Gandhi, an actor must be less concerned with physical verisimilitude than with spiritual presence, and here Kingsley is nothing short of astonishing.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Gandhi
His triumph changed the world forever.
1982 · 3h 11m · PG
Drama, History
Directed by
Richard Attenborough
Overview
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Director and cast
- Richard Attenborough Director
- Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi
- Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White
- Edward Fox as General Dyer
- John Gielgud as Lord Irwin
- Om Puri as Nahari
- Trevor Howard as Judge Broomfield
- John Mills as Lord Chelmsford
- Rohini Hattangadi as Kasturba Gandhi
- Martin Sheen as Vince Walker
- Ian Charleson as Reverend Charlie Andrews
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Once in a long while a motion picture so eloquently expressive and technically exquisite comes along that one is tempted to hail it as being near perfect.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Attenborough's work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
A remarkable experience.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
[Of] importance is the possibility that the film will bring Gandhi to the attention of a lot of people around the world for the first time, not as a saint but as a self-searching, sometimes fallible human being with a sense of humor as well as of history.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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