《Pather Panchali》(English spelling)

...Satyajit Ray, who organized the first cinema club in Calcutta in 1947, screened foreign films by Robert Flaherty and Eisenstein, and from there began his film career. When he was working as an art director at an advertising agency, he had the idea of ​​adapting Bibhutibhushon Bandopadhyay's autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali (The Story of a Road), for which he had done illustrations. Encouraged by Jean Renoir, who had visited India to film The River (1950), he spent his own money to complete Pather Panchali (the original Bengali title is Pather Panchali, the same as the novel), which took him from 1952 to 1955. This work, which depicts in a matter-of-fact manner the fate that befalls a family living in a small village in Bengal, is followed by sequels Pather of the River and Pather of the Tree (1959), which follow the growth of the protagonist, a boy named Opu, from his youth to adulthood, and forms the Opu Trilogy. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…1947年にカルカッタで最初のシネクラブを組織したサタジット･レイは，ロバート･フラハティ，エイゼンシテインらの外国映画を上映し，そこから映画活動を始めた。広告代理店のアート･ディレクターをやっていた時代に挿画を描いたビブティブション･ボンドパッダエの自伝的小説《ポテル･パンチャリPather Panchali(道の物語)》の映画化を思い立ち，《河》(1950)の撮影でインドを訪れていたジャン･ルノアールにも励まされ，私財を投げ打ち，52年から55年までかかって完成させたのが《大地のうた》(ベンガル語の原題は小説と同じ《ポテル･パンチャリ》)である。ベンガル地方の小さな村に住む一家に訪れる運命を淡々としたタッチで描いたこの作品は，主人公の少年オプーの青年時代からおとなへの成長を追った続編《大河のうた》《大樹のうた》(1959)とつづき，〈オプー三部作〉をなす。…

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