This revealing portrait of Indian director Mrinal Sen, with clips from his films, is made by one of the leading directors of the New German Cinema, Reinhard Hauff (best known here for Knife in the Head). Hauff first met Mrinal Sen in 1973, when he saw his films Bhuvan Shome, Interview and Calcutta 71. “I found in them,” Hauff says, “what I myself have always wanted: cinema as provocation.” In 1983, Hauff spent ten days in West Bengal filming “the great gadfly of Indian film,” who, although no longer a young man after making films for 28 years, remains one of the most youthful and exciting minds in the Indian cinema today. And Sen continues to provoke; when asked if he, like Satyajit Ray, has become something of a guru, has said, “Far from it! My age is right, but the man is wrong. I am criticized a good deal, partly for political reasons, and partly because I can't keep my mouth shut.”