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Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray


  • Country: India
  • Year: 1955
  • Language: Bengali
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  • Runtime: 115 min.

The first episode of the epochal "Apu Trilogy", Satyajit Ray's debut is a poetic portrait of an impoverished Brahmin family living in rural Bengal in the 1920s.

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    • Saturday October 2
    • 12:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

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The first episode of the epochal "Apu Trilogy", Satyajit Ray's debut is a poetic portrait of an impoverished Brahmin family living in rural Bengal in the 1920s. Ray focuses on the young son Apu (Subir Banerjee) as he apprehends the beauty and cruelty of the world around him: the strife between his meek father, resentful mother and cackling, hunchbacked aunt, the simple pleasures he shares with his troublemaking sister Durga, the mysteries of nature (including a miraculous monsoon), and the cyclical procession of joys and sorrows, life and death. "I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing it... It is the kind of cinema that flows with the serenity and nobility of a big river" (Akira Kurosawa).

Thanks to May Haduong, Academy Film Archive.

This film was restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive with funding from the Film Foundation. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

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