DVD
Apur sansar = The world of Apu
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In Bengali, with English subtitles.
Performers
Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakraborty, Swapan Mukherjee.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Apu is now in his early twenties, out of college, and hoping to live as a writer. Alongside his professional ambitions, the film charts his romantic awakening, which occurs as the result of a most unlikely turn of events, and his eventual, fraught fatherhood.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, undertaken in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and L'lmmagine Ritrovat ; new interview program with actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore ; "The Apu trilogy": a closer look, a new program featuring filmmaker, producer, and teacher Mamoun Hassan ; footage of director Satyajit Ray receiving an honorary Oscar in 1992 ; new programs on the resortation of The Apu Trilogy by filmmaker :: kogonada ; new English subtitle translation.