Three Seasons
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
City of Joy
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law
Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.
The Dungeon of Harrow
A man is shipwrecked on the island of a cruel Count and taken prisoner.
I Escaped from Devil's Island
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
The House Is Black
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
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Roland Joffé
Director
Art Malik
as
Ashok Ghatak
Pauline Collins
as
Joan Bethel
Shabana Azmi
as
Kamla H. Pal
Sam Wanamaker
as
(uncredited)
Paul Richter
as
MacAllan - englischer Offizier / an English Officer
William Witney
Director
Christopher George
as
Davert
James Luisi
as
Dazzas
Richard Rust
as
Sgt. Zamorra
Ebrahim Golestan
as
Narrator
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