The Apu Trilogy - Pather Panchali -- INDIA 1955 -- subtitled English- Music by Ravi Shankar

Pather Panchali (Bengali: পথের পাঁচালী, Pôther Pãchali, IPA: [pɔt̪ʰer pãtʃali], English: Song of the Little Road) (1955) is a Bengali feature film directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of the Indian state of West Bengal. Based on the Bengali novel Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, the film was the directorial debut of Satyajit Ray. The first film of The Apu Trilogy, it depicts the childhood of the protagonist Apu in the rural countryside of Bengal in the 1920s.

Though the film had a shoestring budget[2] of Rs. 150,000 (US$3000featured mostly amateur actors, and was made by an inexperienced crew Pather Panchali was a critical and popular success. Influenced by Italian neorealism, Satyajit Ray developed his own style of lyrical realism in this film. The first movie from independent India to attract major international critical attention, Pather Panchali won "Best Human Document" at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival establishing Satyajit Ray as a major international filmmaker. Pather Panchali is today considered one of the greatest films of all time

1955 President's Gold and Silver medals (New Delhi)
1956 Cannes Film Festival - Best Human Document
1956 Cannes Film Festival - OCIC Award (Special Mention)
1956 National Film Award for Best Film (India)
1956 Edinburgh International Film Festival - Diploma of Merit
1956 Vatican Award, Rome
1956 Golden Carbao, Manila
1957 San Francisco International Film Festival - Golden Gate for Best Picture
1957 San Francisco International Film Festival - Golden Gate for Best Director
1957 Berlin International Film Festival - Selznick Golden Laurel for Best Film
1958 Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada) - Best Film
1958 Stratford Film Festival (Canada) - Critics' Award for Best Film[94]
1959 New York Film Festival - Best Foreign Film
1959 National Board of Review Awards (New York) - Best Foreign Film
1967 Kinema Junpo Award (Tokyo) - Best Foreign Film[95]
1969 Bodil Award (Denmark) - Best Non-European Film of the Year[96]