One Week In Summer

Set over the dramatic seven days leading up to partition of India and Pakistan, this innovative film will give a unique blow-by-blow account of that tumultuous week, as day by day, chaos consumed the Indian sub-continent during the last days of British Rule. From the flashpoints of the Punjab and Ghandi's base in Calcutta to the burning streets of Lahore and beyond, the film tells the powerful and moving story of some of the millions of people affected by this unique historical event. Told from the perspective of ordinary villagers and townspeople caught up in events, the film reveals how the joys of Independence Day in India and Pakistan were overshadowed by misery in the summer of 1947 and explores just why the violence was so intense. The programme features a novel blend of original first-hand testimony voiced by actors, powerful archive footage and a cast of insightful experts who will guide us through those dramatic and confusing days.