Pather Panchali
1955
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The Apu Trilogy comprises three Indian Bengali-language drama films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959). The original music for the films was composed by Ravi Shankar.
A breathtaking milestone that brought India into the golden age of international art-house film, Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy follows one indelible character, a free-spirited child in rural Bengal who matures into an adolescent urban student and, finally, a sensitive man of the world.
Mar 4, 2001 · The three films, which were made in India by Satyajit Ray between 1950 and 1959, swept the top prizes at Cannes, Venice and London, and created a new cinema for India--whose prolific film industry had traditionally stayed within the narrow confines of swashbuckling musical romances.
Sep 2, 2015 · Now Criterion has helped to restore one of the great classic trilogies, Bengali writer-director Satyajit Ray’s “The Apu Trilogy,” three black-and-white films based on the novels of Bibhutibhushan...
Oct 14, 2021 · After watching Vittorio De Sica's neorealist masterpiece, Bicycle Thieves, Satyajit Ray found the artistic model he had long sought. The humanist, objectivist influence of both Jean Renoir and De Sica is profound in Ray's work; in fact, his films owe more to European Neorealism than they do to Indian film of the time.
Nov 17, 2015 · Satyajit Ray began his filmmaking career by offering a vision of the young Apu, the character he would go on to follow throughout the three films of his stunning breakthrough epic.
All the trilogy films have their share of cinematic magic movements – Discovery of train by Apu and Durga, the candy seller sequence, Indir Thakrun’s death, Durga’s death and Harihar’s realization of Durga’s death in Pather Panchali; Harihar’s death, Sarbajaya’s (Apu’s mother) death on a night sparkling with fire flies and Apu ...
