Pather Panchali, a 1955 Indian Bengali–language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray in his directoral debut and produced by the Government of West Bengal. It's an adaptation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name, and marked Ray's directorial debut. Featuring Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta, Pinaki Sengupta, Chunibala Devi and being the first film in "The Apu Trilogy", Pather Panchali depicts the childhood travails of the protagonist Apu and his elder sister Durga amidst the harsh village life of their poor family.