| Title |
Aparajito = The unvanquished / directed and produced by Satyajit Ray ; screenplay, Satyajit Ray. |
| Edition |
Blu-ray edition. |
| OCLC |
ocn927459376 |
| ISBN |
168143086X |
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9781681430867 |
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168143041X |
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9781681430416 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
715515154611 |
| Music number |
CC2546BD-2 The Criterion Collection |
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CC2546BD The Criterion Collection (set) |
| Publisher |
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015] |
| Description |
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical mono rda. |
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video file Blu-Ray region A rda. |
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Motion picture. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Fathers -- Death -- Drama.
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Mothers and sons -- Drama.
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Boarding schools -- India -- Kolkata -- Drama.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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| System details note |
Blu-ray, region A; mono. |
| Cast |
Pinaki Sengupta, Karuna Bannerjee, Kanu Bandyopadhyay, Smaran Ghosal. |
| Creation/Production credits |
Original music, Ravi Shankar ; cinematographer, Subrata Mitra ; editor, Dulal Dutta. |
| Summary |
Young Apu (Pinaki Sengupta), lives with his mother, Sarbajaya (Karuna Bannerjee), and father, Harihar (Kanu Bandyopadhyay), near the Ganges River. When Harihar dies suddenly, Apu and Sarbajaya move to a small village to be near relatives. Eventually, she reluctantly allows her son (now played by Smaran Ghosal) to attend school in Calcutta. As Apu acclimates to life in the city, Sarbajaya struggles with his absence. |
| Language note |
Bengali dialogue; English subtitles. |
| General note |
Title from container. |
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Based on the novels Pather panchali and Aparajito by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. |
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Fullscreen (1.37:1). |
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Special features: The small details, a new interview with film writer Ujjal Chakraborty; Audio recording from 1958 of a conversation between director Satyajit Ray and film historian Gideon Bachman; Making of "The Apu trilogy": Satyajit Ray's epic debut, a new video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson; The creative person: "Satyajit Ray," a 1967 half-hour documentary by James Beveridge, featuring interviews with Ray, several of his actors, members of his creative team, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta. |
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