The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. His parents are quite poor - his father Harihar, a writer and poet, gave away the family's fruit orchard to settle his brother's debts. His sister Durga and an old aunt also still lives with them. His mother Sarbojaya bears the brunt of the family's situation. She scrapes by and sells her personal possessions to put food on the table and has to bear the taunts of her neighbors as Durga is always stealing fru... (Full plot summary below)
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The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. His parents are quite poor - his father Harihar, a writer and poet, gave away the family's fruit orchard to settle his brother's debts. His sister Durga and an old aunt also still lives with them. His mother Sarbojaya bears the brunt of the family's situation. She scrapes by and sells her personal possessions to put food on the table and has to bear the taunts of her neighbors as Durga is always stealing fruit from their orchard. Things get worse when Harihar disappears for five months and Durga falls ill. Even after Harihar returns, the family is left with few alternatives.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe great, sad, gentle sweep of The Apu Trilogy remains in the mind of the moviegoer as a promise of what film can be. |
| Film ThreatRich ClineIt is quite simply a movie masterpiece; run, don't walk, to any arthouse cinema that shows it! |
| Cinema WriterJay AntaniThere is a faith in the art form here, a pure, loving, embracing faith that really restores my own faith in movies. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannOne of the legendary debuts in the history of film -- deservedly so. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis is the kind of motion picture that will stay with you for hours, or perhaps even days, after you've left the theater, and that's a rare characteristic for any movie. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThere were some moments in the film of pure magic that swept me away. |
| BBC.comTom DawsonA patiently and poetically observed account of the life of a struggling family in a Bengali village. |
| Stream on DemandSean AxmakerRay put his passion into the film and created a nuanced and delicate film. |
| BBC.comJaspreet PandoharExtremely touching in its simplicity, emotional range and visual beauty, it's no wonder it became the first Indian film to achieve widespread international acclaim and establish Ray as a master filmmaker. |
| Playback:stlSarah BoslaughApu (Subir Banerjee) gets a real childhood, despite the family's poverty, with time to play and to learn that he can make choices, and the results of having those simple opportunities will become evident in the two later films. |
