Pather panchali

Satyajit Ray in Pather Panchali (1955)

“For the cinema it's much better to be more concentrated in time. It's an instinctive feeling: I can't put it into words why I feel like that. The film's better if the period is a day or a week or...

Uma Das Gupta in Pather Panchali (1955)

With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband…

Uma Dasgupta and Chuni Bala devi in Pather panchali

Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)