The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested (Judy Davis), who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers). She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft), befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed (Victor Banerjee).
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Judy Davis as Adela Quested |
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Victor Banerjee as Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed |
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Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore |
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James Fox as Richard Fielding |
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Alec Guinness as Prof. Godbole |
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Nigel Havers as Ronny Heaslop |
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Michael Culver as Maj. McBryde |
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Richard Wilson as Turton |
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Antonia Pemberton as Mrs. Turton |
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Michael Culver as McBryde |
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Art Malik as Ali |
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Saeed Jaffrey as Hamidullah |
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Clive Swift as Major Callendar |
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Ann Firbank as Mrs. Callendar |
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Roshan Seth as Amritrao |
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Sandra Hotz as Stella |
| Directing | David Lean | Director |
| Writing | E.M. Forster | Screenplay |
| Art | John Box | Production Design |
| Art | Leslie Tomkins | Production Design |
| Sound | Robin Clarke | Music Editor |
| Writing | Santha Rama Rau | Writer |
| Writing | David Lean | Screenplay |
| Production | John Brabourne | Producer |
| Production | Richard B. Goodwin | Producer |
| Sound | Maurice Jarre | Music |
| Camera | Ernest Day | Director of Photography |
| Editing | David Lean | Editor |
| Art | Cliff Robinson | Art Direction |
| Art | Leslie Tomkins | Art Direction |
| Art | Herbert Westbrook | Art Direction |
| Art | Ram Yedekar | Art Direction |
| Art | Hugh Scaife | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Judy Moorcroft | Costume Design |
| Sound | Graham V. Hartstone | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Nicolas Le Messurier | Sound Recordist |
