Aparajito
by
 
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992, screenwriter, film producer, film director.

Title
Aparajito

Alternate title
Ôporajito
 
Unvanquished
 
Apu trilogy. Part 2

Author
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992, screenwriter, film producer, film director.
 
Banerjee, Kanu, 1905-1985, actor.
 
Sengupta, Pinaki, actor.
 
Ghosal, Smaran, actor.
 
Bannerjee, Karuna, actor.
 
Sengupta, Ramani, actor.
 
Ghosh, Charuprakash, actor.
 
Ganguli, Subodh, actor.
 
Srimani, Moni, actor.
 
Chatterjee, Hemanta, actor.
 
Ranibala, actor.
 
Roy, Sudipta, actor.
 
Mitra, Ajay, actor.
 
Banerjee, Kali, actor.
 
Roy, Kalicharan, actor.
 
Adhikari, Kamala, actor.
 
Banerjee, Lalchand, actor.
 
Gupta, Santi, 1900-1973, actor.
 
Pandey, K. S., actor.
 
Devi, Meenaksi, actor.
 
Mukherjee, Anil, actor.
 
Chakravarti, Harendrakumar, actor.
 
Palwan, Bhaganu, actor.
 
Shankar, Ravi, 1920-2012, composer.
 
Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001, director of photography.
 
Dutta, Dulal, editor of moving image work.
 
Mitra, Durgadas, recordist.
 
Choudhury, Anil, production manager.
 
Bandyopādhyāẏa, Bibhūtibhūshaṇa, 1894-1950.
 
Epic Films (Firm), production company.
 
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Series
Criterion collection ;
 
Apu trilogy.

Series Number
784.

Summary
Young Apu (Pinaki Sengupta), lives with his mother, Sarbajaya (Karuna Bannerjee), and father, Harihar (Karuna Bandyopadhyay), near the Ganges River. When Harihar dies suddenly, Apu and Sarbajaya move to a small village to be near relatives. Eventually, she reluctantly allows her son (now played by Smaran Ghosal) to attend school in Calcutta. As Apu acclimates to life in the city, Sarbajaya struggles with his absence.

General Note
Based on the novel Aparājita by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee.
 
Production credits from subtitles.
 
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.
 
1.37:1 aspect ratio.
 
Special features include 4K digital restoration, interview with film writer Ujjal Chakraborty, audio recording from 1958 of a coversation between director Satyajit Ray and film historian Gideon Bachmann, making the Apu Trilogy - a video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson, a 1967 half-hour documentary about Ray, and new English subtitle translation.

Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre
Foreign films.
 
Film adaptations.
 
Fiction films.
 
Feature films.
 
Films in Bengali

Personal Subject
Bandyopādhyāẏa, Bibhūtibhūshaṇa, 1896?-1950-Film adaptations.

Subject Term
Teenage boys -- Drama.
 
Mothers and sons -- Drama.
 
Young men -- Drama.

Geographic Term
India -- Drama.

Author(s)
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992,
 
Banerjee, Kanu, 1905-1985,
 
Sengupta, Pinaki,
 
Ghosal, Smaran,
 
Bannerjee, Karuna,
 
Sengupta, Ramani,
 
Ghosh, Charuprakash,
 
Ganguli, Subodh,
 
Srimani, Moni,
 
Chatterjee, Hemanta,
 
Ranibala,
 
Roy, Sudipta,
 
Mitra, Ajay,
 
Banerjee, Kali,
 
Roy, Kalicharan,
 
Adhikari, Kamala,
 
Banerjee, Lalchand,
 
Gupta, Santi, 1900-1973,
 
Pandey, K. S.,
 
Devi, Meenaksi,
 
Mukherjee, Anil,
 
Chakravarti, Harendrakumar,
 
Palwan, Bhaganu,
 
Shankar, Ravi, 1920-2012,
 
Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001,
 
Dutta, Dulal,
 
Mitra, Durgadas,
 
Choudhury, Anil,
 
Bandyopādhyāẏa, Bibhūtibhūshaṇa, 1894-1950.

Added Corporate Author
Epic Films (Firm),
 
Criterion Collection (Firm),

Publisher
The Criterion Collection,

Publication Date
2015
 
1956

ISBN
9781681430898

Publication Information
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
 
©2015

Call Number
DVD APUTRIL


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