Bhowani Junction = La croisée des destins dir. by George Cukor ; screenplay by Sonya Levien, Ivan Moffat ; based on the novel by John Masters

An intriguing political drama, set in 1947, about the problems the end of colonialism in India brings with it. It is told through the eyes of a half-breed, an Anglo-Indian woman, Victoria Jones (Ava Gardner). She not only struggles with the thought of what will happen to India when the British leave but with her own identity, as she doesn’t belong to either the Anglo or Indian world. There is an unbridled tension in the air at the Bhowani Junction train depot during the remaining days before the British voluntary withdrawal from India. Members of the Congress party, led by Surabhai (Abraham Sofaer), use passive resistance to block the trains, as they aim to speed the British out of India by their demonstrations. A Communist revolutionist, Darvay, wants to take control of the country from both the British and other opposition parties and stirs the masses to violently revolt, which includes dynamiting trains and killing even his own people for the good of the greater cause…