Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray’s debut about an impoverished family in rural Bengal remains one of the greatest films about childhood experience.

  • Director

    Satyajit Ray

  • With

    Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Bannerjee

  • India 1955. 125min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    U

  • Bengali with English subtitles

Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Ray’s film is one of the most extraordinary feature debuts ever made. It follows the everyday lives of an impoverished family in rural Bengal in the early years of the 20th century. We witness events through the eyes of the young Apu, whose sentimental education makes for subtle moral, social and psychological insights. A timeless masterpiece.