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The History of Cinema: 1945 |
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Italy - Vietnam |
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Italy |
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French actress Corinne Luchaire is arrested as a collaborator, along with her father, press tycoon Jean Luchaire. She will receive a prison sentence and be deprived of her civil rights as a French citizen for 10 years, while her father is shot by a firing squad. [ADD] |
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– Italy’s main trade associations are founded this year: the national entertainment association (Agis); the national exhibitors' association (Anec), part of Agis; and the national association of cinema enterprises (Anica). [ADD] |
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Japan |
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Momotaro: Umi no shinpei (Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors) is released. Japan’s first animated feature, it is a propaganda piece commissioned by the Navy to improve the morale of Japanese youth. Japan surrender weeks later. [ADD] |
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– Occupying US forces ban pre-1945 Japanese films. [ADD] |
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Macedonia |
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– FIDIMA, the first institution in the country for the production, distribution and exhibition of films is established. [ADD] |
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Poland |
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| 13/11 - |
The film industry is nationalised under the umbrella title of Film Polski, and Aleksander Ford is named as director of the new national cinematographic institution. [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Cinema Chronicle 1, the first post-war Yugoslav film, begins shooting in Belgrade. [ADD] |
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The Films Section and State Film Enterprise are dissolved. [ADD] |
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The Films Enterprise (later renamed the Films Enterprise of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia (FPRY) is established with government capital of 1,000,000 dinar [ADD] |
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Slovakia |
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– The State takes control of the Nástup film company, and all its assets and personnel. [ADD] |
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Slovenia |
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– The National Cinematographic State Commission is founded to regulate production, distribution and exhibition of films in Slovenia. [ADD] |
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Spain |
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– Garbancita de la Mancha, Spain’s first animated feature, is released. [ADD] |
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Sri Lanka |
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– The Colombo Cinema Society, believed to be the first cinema society in Asia, is formed. [ADD] |
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Switzerland |
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At the International Congress of Basle, the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique is re-activated after being dissolved by the war in Europe. [ADD] |
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USSR |
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Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible) is released. The film, which stars Nikolai Cherkasov in the title role and features the music of Prokofiev, took three years to complete. Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Berman and Mikhail Nazvanov also star. [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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– The Movie-Photography Section is founded by the Ministry of Information and Propaganda of the revolutionary provisional government. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1945 |
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Mexico |
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Los Abandonadas (Emilio Fernandez) [ADD] |
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Bugambilia (Emilio Fernandez) [ADD] |
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Mongolia |
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Tsogt taij (Dejidiin Jigjid) [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Beograd (Nikolai Popovic) [ADD] |
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Jasenovac (Gustav Gavrin, Kosta Hlavaty) [ADD] |
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Koraci slobode (Rados Novakovic) [ADD] |
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Slovakia |
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Za Slobodu (Palo Bielik) [ADD] |
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Uruguay |
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Los Tres Mosqueteros (Julio Saraceni) [ADD] |
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Uzbekistan |
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Takhir i Zukhra (Nabi Ganiyev) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1945 |
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