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The Apu trilogy [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ART 230 | Artificial Eye (set)VFB 19851 | Artificial Eye (Pather Panchali)VFB 00920 | Artificial Eye (Aparajito)VFB 32572 | Artificial Eye (Apur sansar)Language: Bengali Summary language: English Original language: Bengali Publication details: [London] : Artificial Eye, [2003]Edition: Standard format (1.33:1)Description: 3 videodiscs (333 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles:
  • Pathera pan\0310cali (Motion picture)
  • Aparajito (Motion picture)
  • Apura samsara (Motion picture)
Genre/Form:
Contents:
disc 1. Pather Panchali [= Song of the little road] (1955, 125 min.) / presented by the West Bengal Government -- disc 2. Aparajito = The unvanquished (1956, 108 min.) / presented by Epic Films (Private) Ltd. ; production by Satyajit Ray -- disc 3. Apur sansar = The world of Apu (1958, 100 min.) / Satyajit Ray Productions presents ; production by Satyajit Ray.
Production credits:
  • Photography, Subrata Mitra ; editing, Dulal Dutta ; music, Ravi Shankar.
Cast for Pather Panchali: Kanu Banerji, Karuna Banerji, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Banerji, Chunibala.Cast for Aparajito: Karuna Banerji, Shanti Gupta, Kanu Banerji, Smaran Ghosal, Pinaki Sengupta.Cast for Apur sansar: Soumitra Chatterji, Sharmila Tagore, Aloke Chakravarty, Swapan Mukerji.Summary: Pather panchali: The story of a poor Brahmin family living in rural India. The first film in the Apu trilogy.Summary: Aparajito: Apu receives a scholarship to attend college in Calcutta, leaving his mother with mixed emotions. The second film in the Apu trilogy.Summary: Apur sansar: Apu is pressed into a marriage of convenience, changing his life forever. The third film in the Apu trilogy.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 0372 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050092532

Pather Panchali is based on the novel: Pathera pan\0310cali / by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya.

Aparajito & Apur sansar are both based on the novel: Aparajita / by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya.

Special features (disc 1): excerpts from the BBC documentary television program "The cinema of Satyajit Ray" (1988, 12 min.); storyboards; stills gallery; production notes; Satyajit Ray biography; Satyajit Ray filmography.

Special features (disc 2): excerpts from the BBC documentary television program "The cinema of Satyajit Ray" (1988, 9 min.); stills gallery; production notes; Satyajit Ray biography; Satyajit Ray filmography.

Special features (disc 3): "Movie masterclass - Mamoun Hassan talks about Satyajit Ray's 'The world of Apu'" (with writer Kerry Crabbe and students from The National Film and Television School, produced and directed by Mamoun Hassan, a Third Eye production for Channel Four, 1990, 64 min.); excerpts from the BBC documentary television program "The cinema of Satyajit Ray" (1988, 7 min.); stills gallery; production notes; Satyajit Ray biography; Satyajit Ray filmography.

Program notes on container by Andrew Robinson.

"Digitally restored picture and sound" -- Container.

disc 1. Pather Panchali [= Song of the little road] (1955, 125 min.) / presented by the West Bengal Government -- disc 2. Aparajito = The unvanquished (1956, 108 min.) / presented by Epic Films (Private) Ltd. ; production by Satyajit Ray -- disc 3. Apur sansar = The world of Apu (1958, 100 min.) / Satyajit Ray Productions presents ; production by Satyajit Ray.

DVD, region 2; Dolby digital 1.0.

In Bengali, with optional English subtitles.

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