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The History of Cinema: 1932 |
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| – Attempts to shoot the first Indian colour film fail when the negative for Sairhandri, directed by Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram, is ruined during processing abroad. Bilwamangal, made later in the year by Madan Theatres, is also unsuccessful. [ADD] | ||||
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| – Ayodhyecha Raja (The King of Ayodhya), directed by Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram, is the first film to be made in the Marathi language. [ADD] | ||||
| – J. J. Madan’s musical spectacular Indrasabha (The Court of Lord Indra) features more than 70 songs in a running time of 211 minutes. [ADD] | ||||
| – 30 talking pictures are made in India this year. Eight of them are made by Madan Theatres, who own a chain of 126 cinemas, most of which are not equipped for sound. [ADD] | ||||
| – Setu Bandhan, the last film Indian cinema’s pioneer Dadasaheb Phalke will direct for five years, is released. It is a commercial failure, and Phalke’s company is dissolved. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Motion Picture Society of India is founded. [ADD] | ||||
| – The East India Film Co. is founded. It makes films in Bengali, Tamil and Telugu. [ADD] | ||||
| Italy | ||||
| 6/8 - | The first International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art (Mostra) opens in Venice with the support of Mussolini’s fascist government. The brainchild of sculptor Antonio Mariani, 29 films are shown, including Nikolai Ekk’s Putyovka v zhizn (Road to Life), Rene Clair’s A nous la liberte and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [ADD] | |||
| Japan | ||||
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Mikio Naruse’s Mushibameru haru (Lost Springtime) is released. [ADD] | |||
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Yazujiro Ozu’s Otona no mire ehon – Umarete wa mita kareda (I Was Born, But…), a lower middle class domestic drama, is released. [ADD] | |||
| Macedonia | ||||
| Summer- | The Korzo cinema in Skopje opens the ‘City Cassina’ outdoor cinema in the garden of the Kalamaras. [ADD] | |||
| – Film crews from around the world visit Macedonia to make films: a Paramount cinematographer (John Dorrad?) films a wedding ceremony in Galicnik and the sheepfolds in the mountains of Bistra; the Belgrade Central Press Bureau shoot tourist films, while American and German crews make films about the national costume. A film is also made for Strasbourg University about the area around Skopje. [ADD] | ||||
| - More cinemas open around the country: The Balkans in Prilep (opened by Pane Napeski), Milan Gjorev’s Belgrade Hotel in Veles, The Avala in Skopje, and a hall of the Palas Hotel in Kumanovo. [ADD] | ||||
| Mexico | ||||
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| 16/3 - | Following the withdrawal of finance for Que Viva Mexico!, Sergei Eisenstein and his colleagues, Edouard Tisse and Grigori Alexandrov, are forced to abandon the project and return to the Soviet Union. [ADD] | |||
| – Santa, Mexico’s first sound film, is released. It is directed by actor Antonio Moreno. [ADD] | ||||
| Pakistan | ||||
| – Jagatrai Pesumal Advani makes his final film in Lahore, Heer Ranjha, starring M. Ismail, Rafiq Ghaznavi, Nazeer and Anwari. [ADD] | ||||
| Romania | ||||
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| – Constantin Tanase finances, writes and stars in Visul lui Tanase (Tanase’s Dream) in Berlin. [ADD] | ||||
| Thailand | ||||
| – Long Tang (Gone Astray), Thailand’s first colour film, is produced by the Wasuwat brothers for the Krungthep Film Company. [ADD] | ||||
| Turkey | ||||
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| 7/12 - | Muhsin Ertugrul’s Bir millet Uyaniyor is released. A film about the Anatolian resistance to invasion, it stars Ercument Behzat Lav and Emel Riza, and is considered to be Turkey’s first film of note. [ADD] | |||
| USSR | ||||
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| Vselevod Pudovkin’s Prostoy sluchay (A Simple Case) is released. [ADD] | ||||
| – The first Five Year Plan results in the balance of film trade between the USSR and USA shifting in the Soviet’s favour for the first time. [ADD] | ||||
| Yugoslavia | ||||
| – Milutin Ignjacevic’s Na kapiji Orijenta (At the Gate of Orient) is released. [ADD] | ||||
| – 326 cultural and documentary films, newsreel and domestic feature films are produced following 1931’s Film Distribution Law. However, cinema audiences decrease as cinema owners rely on screening old and poorly-made domestic product to meet the quota laid down by the law. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key Films of 1932 |
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| Chandidas (Debaki Bose) [ADD] | ||||
| Italy | ||||
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| Gli uomini, che mascalzoni (Mario Camerini) [ADD] | ||||
| La Tavola dei poveri (Alessandro Blassetti) [ADD] | ||||
| Japan | ||||
| Chushingura – Zempn: Akahokyo no maki (The Loyal Forty-Seven Ronin) (Teinosuke Kinugasa) [ADD] | ||||
| Poland | ||||
| Sabra (Aleksander Ford) [ADD] | ||||
| USSR | ||||
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| Vstrechnyy (Counterplan) (Friedrich Ermler, Sergei Yutkevich) [ADD] | ||||
| Ivan (Aleksandr Dovzhenko) [ADD] | ||||
| The History of Cinema: 1932 | ||||
| Australia - Hungary | ||||
| France | ||||
| Gt. Britain | ||||
| USA January - June | ||||
| USA July - December | ||||
