For decades, cinephiles and lovers of literary adaptations have searched for a film that captures the dizzying clash of cultures, the heat of forbidden desire, and the slow, suffocating descent into obsession. The Bengali Night (original French title: La Nuit Bengali ), directed by Nicolas Klotz in 1988, is precisely that rarity. Based on the semi-autobiographical novel The Bengali Night by Mircea Eliade—the legendary Romanian historian of religion and fiction writer—the film holds a special, almost mythological place in European cinema.
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