Director : Satyajit Ray
Camera : Subrato Mitra
Editor : Dulal Dutta
Music : Ravi Shankar
Cast : Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Chunibala Devi, Runki, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Banerjee

1955/106 Mins./B&W/Bengali/Classic

Sometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal. The father is a poet and priest who cannot earn enough to keep his family going. The mother's life is a daily struggle. Their six-year-old daughter, Durga, is forever stealing mangoes from the neighbour's orchards. There is constant bickering between the mother and an old aunt who lives with the family. Soon after Apu's birth, the father tells his wife of the new job he has been promised. He talks hopefully of house repairs, finding a husband for Durga, a good school for Apu and of writing a great poem or play. Six years later nothing has changed.