Days and Nights in the Forest

Director: Satyajit Ray

1970 / 115min / 4K DCP

Leaving crowded Calcutta behind for a few days of rustication in the Palamau woods—while bringing the deeply ingrained prejudices of their castes and their sex along as baggage—four middle-class young men hope that their holiday will provide the opportunity for a passing romantic fling, but instead find themselves presented with the mortifying prospect of having to confront their own boorish biases. “Modern and novelistic. Ray [works] in terrain perhaps more familiar to Cassavetes… Selfish men and their hopes and cruelties and spectacular lack of wisdom. Women who see through them. The great Soumitra Chatterjee: lost but searching. The great Sharmila Tagore: mysterious, cerebral, mesmerizing. From the master, another masterpiece.” —Wes Anderson

Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive. Funding provided by Golden Globe Foundation. Special thanks to Wes Anderson and Sandip Ray.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Going Up the Country