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Pather Panchali
Directed by
Satyajit Ray
Not Rated
1955
2h 4m
Drama
8.2
100%
96%
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Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
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Cast of Pather Panchali
Kanu Bannerjee
Harihar Ray
Karuna Banerjee
Sarbojaya Ray
Chunibala Devi
Indir Thakrun
Uma Das Gupta
Durga Ray
Subir Banerjee
Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray
Runki Banerjee
Little Durga Ray
Reba Devi
Seja Thakrun
Aparna Devi
Nilmoni's wife
Tulsi Chakraborty
Prasanna, school teacher
Haren Banerjee
Chinibas, Sweet-seller
Rampada Das
Nibhanani Devi
Dasi Thakurun
Rama Gangopadhaya
Ranu Mookerjee
Roma Ganguli
Roma
Binoy Mukherjee
Baidyanath Majumdar
Haridhan Nag
Harimohan Nag
Doctor
Kshirod Roy
Priest
Suren Roy
Satyajit Ray
Director / Writer / Producer
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Writer
Bansi Chandragupta
Producer
Pather Panchali Ratings & Reviews
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June 11, 2025
“The most important movie I have ever seen in my life.”🌸 ——Satyajit Ray was absolutely a genius .🙏
Village Voice
Jonas Mekas
It is most simple, most down to earth, and from the very heart. Specifically it is about India, but actually it is about everybody. The poetry of the film transcends its locality and speaks to us all.
Film Culture
Arlene Croce
Pather Panchali shows the creative imagination in its humblest involvement with the pathos of the commonplace.
Detroit Free Press
Helen Bower
Pather Panchali will leave many images in the mind's ye and many impressions of another way of life.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
The cast has been well selected and all the players seem completely unaware of the camera. The results are a film which is unvarnished and often painfully vivid.
New York Daily News
Wanda Hale
Although Pather Panchali falls short of perfection in production, the acting is impeccable and it hits you right in the heart.
Los Angeles Times
Philip K. Scheuer
Ray has caught the sights and sounds of nature all about them -- beauty side by side with ugliness -- with a poet's sensitivity.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
A moment where Apu and Durga walk through long grass and the boy catches his first glimpse of a train crossing the landscape defines Ray's genius for composition and his gift for metaphor.
New York Daily News
Dave Kehr
Masterfully, Ray balances a growing sense of possibility and a feeling of irreplaceable loss. Its truth is obvious, its beauty no less.
Detroit Free Press
Frank Bruni
[Pather Panchali] offers the pleasures of exquisite black-and-white cinematography and eye-opening glimpses of life in a poor Indian village, but much less in the way of compelling, accessible storytelling.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
In the history of cinema, there are a number of great pictures, but only a few miracles. One of those miracles is Pather Panchali, the late filmmaker Satyajit Ray's brilliantly executed, shatteringly realistic and compassionate drama.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
Despite the thousands of miles which divide us from this little family in a far off speck of village, there is a strange community of spirit and understanding. And for this, Roy may take credit.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
There is a simplicity, an honesty, a zest for living to be found in this film of India which is surprisingly exciting.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Beautiful, sometimes funny, and full of love, it brought a new vision of India to the screen.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Satyajit Ray's beautiful first feature.
Variety
Variety Staff
Film justly won the 'most human document award' at the 1956 Cannes Film Fest, unveiling a mature film talent in director Satyajit Ray.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
There are lovely little threads in the strange fabric. It's a film that takes patience to be enjoyed.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The great, sad, gentle sweep of The Apu Trilogy remains in the mind of the moviegoer as a promise of what film can be.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
One of the legendary debuts in the history of film -- deservedly so.
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