Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

• DirectorDavid Lean
• Release14 December 1984
• Genre
  Drama / Adventure
• Duration2h 43m
• Budget$8,000,000
• Revenue$27,201,487
• Rate
  

  6.796
  299 reviews
• Productions

  EMI Films, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwyn Productions, HBO Films