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Apur Sansar

The World of Apu

Mon 22.07.
20:00

  • Director

    Satyajit Ray

  • India / 1959
    106 min. / 35 mm / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    Soumitra Chatterjee, Sarmila Tagore

  • Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant Ivory Foundation, The Film Foundation, and the Packard Humanities Institute. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

  • Cinema

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Life is also full of hardship and disappointment for Apu the adult. He lives in a miserable garret in Kolkata, is unemployed and writing a novel in parallel to his humiliating search for paid work. A former fellow student invites him to his cousin Aparna's wedding in the country. When the wedding does not take place, Apu marries Aparna. They soon fall genuinely in love and are expecting a child. A stroke of fate leads Apu to wander aimlessly for several years until he finds new hope. The conclusion of the Apu trilogy is a touching experience, also thanks to Ravi Shankar's compositions. Shankar had already worked with Ray on the first part of the trilogy and revolutionized film music in Bengali and Indian cinema. (gv)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media