Named the Best Foreign Film of 1960 by the National Board of Review and winner of numerous festival prizes, The World of Apu is the crowning finish to Satyajit Ray's unforgettable Apu Trilogy.

Forced to abandon his education, Apu's prospects look bleak until fate intervenes in the form of an insane bridegroom. To save the abandoned bride from public disgrace, Apu marries, her beginning a new life as husband and father. Like the earlier films in the trilogy, Pather Panchali and Aparajito, The World of Apu is more than a mesmerizing look at Indian culture; it is a universal look at family love and personal sacrifice.