Ray, Satyajit	...	(Director)
Satyajit Ray, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay	...	(Writer)
Kanu Bannerjee	...	Harihar Ray
Karuna Bannerjee	...	Sarbojaya Ray
Pinaki Sengupta	...	Apu (young)
Smaran Ghosal	...	Apu (adolescent)
Santi Gupta	...	Ginnima
Ramani Sengupta	...	Bhabataran
Ranibala	...	Teliginni
Sudipta Roy	...	Nirupama
Ajay Mitra	...	Anil
Charuprakash Ghosh	...	Nanda
Subodh Ganguli	...	Headmaster
Mani Srimani	...	Inspector
Hemanta Chatterjee	...	Professor
Kali Bannerjee	...	Kathak
Kalicharan Roy	...	Akhil, press owner
Panchanan Bhattacharya	...
Debabrata Chakraborty	...
Kamala Adhikari	...	Mokshada
Lalchand Banerjee	...	Lahiri
Shibnarayan Nag	...
K.S. Pandey	...	Pandey
Meenakshi Devi	...	Pandey's wife
Anil Mukherjee	...	Abinash
Saraswati Pandey	...
Harendrakumar Chakravarti	...	Doctor
Bhaganu Palwan	...	Palwan
Subrata Mitra	...	Cinematographer
Dulal Dutta	...	Film Editor
Keya Sengupta	...
Durgadas Mitra	...	Sound Department
Ravi Shankar	...	Composer
Bansi Chandragupta	...	Production Designer
Udayshankar Tiwari	...
Karuna Banerjee	...	Sarbojaya Ray
Kanu Banerjee	...	Harihar Ray
Anil Choudhury	...	Production Manager
Suren Chakraborty	...	Assistant Director
Shailen Dutta	...	Assistant Director
Arup Guhathakurta	...	Assistant Director
Subir Hajra	...	Assistant Director

Summary: After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Apu enters a local school, where he does well. By the time he graduates, he has a scholarship to study at a college in Calcutta. So off he goes. His mother is torn by his leaving, and by his growing independence. She loves her son very much and wants him to succeed, but she does not want to be left alone.