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The History of Cinema: 1934 |
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| 23/11 - | Yasujiro Ozu’s Ukigusa Monogatari (A Story of Floating Weeds) premieres in Tokyo. [ADD] | |||
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| – Swiss filmmaker Herbert Dreyer shoots a thirty-minute tourist film [ADD] | ||||
| – Jugoslovenski Prosvetni Film produce The Celebration of the Liberation of South Serbia in Skopje, and the newsreel The Sanctifying of the Temple of Glory in Skopje. [ADD] | ||||
| – The country’s first sound system is installed in the Serbian King Hotel in Shtip, although sound films are rarely screened. It is moved to the Gym Hall two years later, where regular screenings take place. [ADD] | ||||
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| 28/11 - | Juan Bustillo Oro’s Dos monjes is released. It uses a narrative technique that will later be used in Kurosawa’s Rashomon – that of the conflicting flashback. [ADD] | |||
| Mongolia | ||||
| – Ard, the first Mongolian cinema is established in Ulan Bator. [ADD] | ||||
| Morocco | ||||
| – The French-Moroccan co-production, Itto, directed by Jean-Benoit Levy and Marie Epstein, is Morocco’s first sound (and feature) film. [ADD] | ||||
| Romania | ||||
| – The National Cinematography Fund is founded to develop the technical base of Romanian cinematography. [ADD] | ||||
| – Horia Igirosanu’s Insula serpilor is released. [ADD] | ||||
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| 29/5 - | Filming starts in St. Moritz of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much. The cast includes Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks and Edna Best. [ADD] | |||
| Thailand | ||||
| – N. N. Papayon’s Khun Chang Khun Pae, a popular film based on traditional Thai literature, is released. [ADD] | ||||
| Turkey | ||||
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| – Muhsin Ertugrul’s comedy Leblebici Horhor Aga wins an honorary diploma at the Venice Film Festival. [ADD] | ||||
| – Muhsin Ertugrul’s tale of country life, Batakli damin kizi, Aysel (Aysel, Daughter of the Marshy Village), is released. [ADD] | ||||
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Mikhail Romm’s first feature, Pyshka, is released by the Moskino-Kombinat studio. The film is a silent adaptation of Maupassant’s Boule-de-suif. [ADD] | |||
| 5/10 - | German actor Erwin Piscator’s directorial debut, Vosstaniye rybakov (The Revolt of the Fishermen) is released in Moscow. [ADD] | |||
| 7/11 - | Sergei Vasiliev and Georgi Vasiliev’s patriotic Civil War opus Chapaev (Chapayev) is released by Lenfilm. [ADD] | |||
| 25/12 – | Grigori Alexandrov’s American-style comedy Vesyolyye rebyata (Jolly Fellows) is released. [ADD] | |||
Other Key Films of 1934 |
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| Tri pesni o Lenine (Dziga Vertov) [ADD] | ||||
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