THE APU TRILOGY

 

Aparajito (The Unvanquished/Bengali)

(113 min; 1956; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)

With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Pinaki Sen Gupta

 

Recipient of the FIPRESCIPrize & Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1957; Golden Gate Award for Best Director, San Francisco International Film Festival 1958; and NBR Award for Top Foreign Film, National Board of Review, USA 1959

 

The film chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college, the death of his mother, and his journey into the real world