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The History of Cinema: 1931 |
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| 7/8 - | Argentina’s first talking picture, Jose A. Ferreyra’s Munequitas Portenas, is released. [ADD] | |||
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Australia gets its own version of Movietone News – called Australian Movietone News – which includes an additional reel of international stories for the Australian market. [ADD] | |||
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The Herald Newsreel, a co-production between Herschells Films and the Melbourne Herald is shown for the first time. [ADD] | |||
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7/11 - |
Cinesound Review newsreel is screened for the first time. Produced by Greater Union’s Cinesound Studios, it features coverage of the Melbourne Cup. [ADD] | |||
| Bangladesh | ||||
| 11/4 - | Jamai Shashthi, directed by Amar Choudhury, becomes the first Bengali talking film. [ADD] | |||
| Denmark | ||||
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| 7/5 - | George Schneevoigt’s Praesten I Vejlby (The Pastor of Vejlby), Denmark’s first sound film with Danish dialogue, is released, reinforcing Nordisk’s dominance of the Danish market. [ADD] | |||
| Estonia | ||||
| – The state supported studio Eesti Kultuurifilm (Estonian Culture Film) is founded. [ADD] | ||||
| Finland | ||||
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| 30/3 - | Yrjo Norta’s Sano se suomeksi (Say it in Finnish), is released. [ADD] | |||
| Georgia | ||||
| 13/12 - | Mikheil Chiaureli’s silent comedy Khabarda is released to critical acclaim. [ADD] | |||
| Germany | ||||
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19/2 - |
G. W. Pabst’s adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s Die 3groschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), featuring a young Lotte Lenya, premieres in Berlin. [ADD] | |||
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Charlie Chaplin’s visit to Berlin causes such a commotion that he is forced to cut it short. [ADD] | |||
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11/5 - |
Fritz Lang’s classic M is released. Originally titled The Murderers Are Among Us, the film was renamed after pressure from the Nazi party, who suspected it was a reference to them. The film stars stage-actor Peter Lorre. [ADD] | |||
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30/6 - |
Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front is finally passed for public screening by the censors against the protests of Hitler Youth groups and the Reichstag. [ADD] | |||
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17/11 - |
G. W. Pabst’s Kameradschaft, filmed in the coal mines of the Pas-de-Callais region in France, is released. The film is based on a real-life mining catastrophe in Courrieres in 1906, and was made with the participation of local miners. [ADD] | |||
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28/11 - |
Madschen in Uniform, Leontine Sagan’s study of adolescent lesbian love premieres in Berlin. [ADD] | |||
| – UFA make a film called The Many-Coloured World of Animals using an experimental new colour process. [ADD] | ||||
| Hungary | ||||
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| 25/9 - | Hungary’s first talking picture, A Kek Balvany, directed by Lajos Lazar, is released. [ADD] | |||
| India | ||||
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14/3 - |
Alam Ara, Indian’s first feature-length sound film, is released. Directed in Hindustani by Ardeshir Irani for the Imperial Film Company, it stars Fatma Begum. [ADD] | |||
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15/9 - |
H. M. Reddy’s Bhakta Prahlada, the first Telugu language sound feature, is released. [ADD] | |||
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31/10 - |
H. M. Reddy’s Kalidas, the first Tamil sound picture, is released. [ADD] | |||
| Italy | ||||
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18/6 - |
Law 918 imposes a levy of 10% of box office revenue, the funds from which are to be used to ‘aid all sectors of the film industry and in particular to reward those with a proven ability to cater for the tastes of the public.’ [ADD] | |||
Other Key Films of 1931 |
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| Germany | ||||
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| Berlin Alexanderplatz (Piel Jutzi) [ADD] | ||||
| Dann schon lieber Lebertran (Max Ophuls) [ADD] | ||||
| Emil und die Detektive (Gerhard Lamprecht) [ADD] | ||||
| Der Kongress tanzt (Erik Charell) [ADD] | ||||
| Der Morder Dimitri Karamasoff (Fedor Ozep) [ADD] | ||||
| Wer nimmt die Liebe ernst? (Erich Engel) [ADD] | ||||
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