The World of Apu

Duration: 1:15

Genre: Drama

Year Published: 1959

Creator: adapted, produced, and directed by Satyajit Ray.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992.; Bandyopādhyāẏa, Bibhūtibhūshaṇa, 1896?-1950. Aparājita.; Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001.; Shankar, Ravi, 1920-2012.; Dutt, Dulal.; Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Saumitra, 1935-; Tagore, Sharmila.; Mukherji, Swapan.; Chakravarty, Alok.; Harrison, Edward Robert.

Description: Based on the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhusan Bannerji.; Production dates and credits taken from New York Times film reviews and Variety film reviews.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Photography, Subrata Mitra ; editor, Dulal Dutt ; music composed and played by Ravi Shankar.; New York times film reviews, 10/5/60.; Variety film reviews, 9/23/59.; Soumitra Chatterjee (Apu), Sharmila Tagore (Aparna), Swapan Mukherji (Pulie), Alok Chakravarty (Kalal).; Third film in the "Apu trilogy" this tells of Apu's life as a struggling writer. He becomes a bridegroom at a wedding where he was to have been a guest, in order to save face for the bride when the intended groom goes insane before the wedding. A brief idyllic marriage follows, ending when his wife dies in childbirth. Apu spends years aimlessly wandering to try to come to terms with his life and finally comes to reclaim the son he rejected at his birth.; PFA 1616-108-8637. D0108; In Bengali with English subtitles.

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Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE