Satyajit Ray
Selected Filmography:
1955: Song of the Little road
1958: The Music Room
1959: The World of Apu
1960: The Goddess
1963: The Big City
1964: Charulata
1964: The Lovely Wife
1965: The Coward
1966: The Hero
1970: Days and Nights in the Forest
1970: Praditwandi (The Adversary)
1973: The Distant Thunder
1977: The Chess Players
1978: The Elephant God
1980: Pikoo's Day
1981: The Deliverance
1984: The Home and the World
1990: Shakha Proshakha
1991: The Stranger
Selection:
2020, 2019, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2007, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1997, 1995
Satyajit Ray was born 1921 in in the city of Calcutta. Regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of Indian cinema, he was also a fiction writer, calligrapher and music composer and renowned for his knowledge about Occidental culture. He directed 37 long features, acting as a script writer, music composer and cameraman. His movies include children, gangster, as well as historical movies, novel adaptations (especially from Tagore’s works), contemporary dramas, documentaries and short movies. He died in Calcutta right after having received an Honorary Oscar in 1992 for Lifetime Achievement.
