Color, In Bengali with English subtitles.
Credits
Producer: Satyajit Ray Productions, Gerard Depardieu (D. D. Productions), Daniel Toscan Du Plantier (Erato Films) and Soprofilms
Original Screenplay & Direction: Satyajit Ray
Cinematography: Barun Raha
Editing: Dulal Dutta
Art Direction: Ashoke Bose
Sound: Pierre Lenoir, Sujit Sarkar, Jyoti Chatterjee
Music: Satyajit Ray, Bach, Beethoven
  
Cast  
Character: Performer
Ananda Majumdar: Ajit Bannerjee
Probodh, the eldest son: Haradhan Bannerjee
Proshanto, the second son: Soumitra Chatterjee
Probir, the third son: Deepankar Dey
Protap, the fourth son: Ranjit Mullik
Uma, Probodh's wife:  Lily Chakravarty
Tapti, Probir's wife: Mamata Shankar .

Summary:

This bittersweet story is one of the last two films directed by acclaimed Bengali Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). In the story, Probodh (Maradan Bannerjee) is the very moral and upright 70 year old patriarch of a family, with four grown sons. His father and one of his sons live at home with him, and his other three sons live elswhere. When he collapses during a banquet being given in his honor, the sons and their families gather at his bedside at home. There, while their father lies for the most part comatose, only rousing occasionally to deliver cryptic messages, the boys reveal to each other exactly what they've been up to without the sugar coating they've been giving their father. The oldest boy has been embezzling from the company he runs, another one is losing money for fun at the racetrack, and yet another has given up a decent job in order to become an actor. As they quarrel with one another, they are not aware that their father has been taking much of this in. Gradually, the old man recovers, a little wiser perhaps, and certainly sadder.