Sometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal, but the father, a poet and priest, cannot earn enough to keep his family going.
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(India, 1956, B&W, 112 mins, dir. Satyajit Ray, with Kanu Banerji & Karuna Banerji, Bengali with English subtitles) (#3494)