The debut feature from Satyajit Ray is a touching portrait of life in a small, impoverished village in rural India with the texture and grace of a painting.
Graceful and melancholy, this 1959 classic observes the old-world feudal life of the 1920s fading into irrelevance with both sympathy and disparagement.
The three films that follow the life of a boy from his impoverished childhood in a rural village to the city and adulthood brought Indian cinema to an international audience.
