Nocturne Indien

The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi Noturno Indiano An old friend of the heros has been living in Bombay with a prostitute His friend Peter Schlemihl Otto Tausig is a concentration camp survivor who went to India after being captivated by a photograph he saw there When the prostitute writes to him in Europe asking that he rescue his friend from a mysterious malaise he flies into India to try and help When he gets to Bombay he discovers that his friend has disappeared Following the clues left behind by the friend and based on his acquaintance with him he journeys to Madras to speak to a Theosophist dignitary there and then journeys on to Portugues Goa With each step of his journey the hero JeanHugues Anglade becomes more identified with his friend and reenacts in his own person the transformations he must have experienced