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Pather Panchali
MEANRANK
86/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #85
- IMDb #180
- Rotten Tomatoes #74
- Letterboxd #107
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #113
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #283
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 77, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98. Critics average 98, everyone else 84.
See the most agreed on films →Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indignities heaped upon them.
Details
- Director
- Satyajit Ray
- Writer
- Satyajit Ray
- Studio
- Government of West Bengal
- Released
- 26 August 1955
- Country
- India
- Language
- Bengali
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Budget
- $31.5K
- Box office
- $536.4K
- Awards
- 5 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (23) →
Awards & nominations
See all 5 →1 major award won · 5 wins from 5 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| BAFTA Award 1958 | Best Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
| Bodil Award 1969 | Best American Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
| National Board of Review Award 1958 | Best Foreign Language Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
| National Film Award 1955 | Best Feature Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
| National Film Award 1955 | Best Bengali Feature Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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5 awards — Pather Panchali
×| Best Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
| Best Bengali Feature Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
| Best Feature Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
| Best American Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Satyajit Ray | Winner |