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The History of Cinema: 1953 |
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Macedonia - Zaire |
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Macedonia |
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– Vardar Film produces 20 documentary films in 1953. [ADD] |
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– The country’s first advertising films are produced. [ADD] |
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Malta |
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– Single-Handed, a British film directed by Roy Boulting, is partly shot on location on Gozo Island, making it the first film to be shot in Malta. [ADD] |
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Actor Gérard Philipe arrives in Alvaro to begin filming Yves Allégret's Les Orgueilleux (The Proud Ones) with Michele Morgan. [ADD] |
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Pakistan |
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– The East Bengal Provincial Govt establishes a film division under the Public Relations Division. [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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The Federation of Motion Picture Producers in South East Asia is founded. Member countries are Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan. [ADD] |
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Sweden |
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Ingmar Bergman’s Sommaren med Monika (Summer with Monika) is released. Harriet Andersson and Lars Ekborg star as a young couple enjoying an idyllic affair during a summer holiday. [ADD] |
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Ingmar Bergman's Gycklarnas Afton (Sawdust and Tinsel) is released. After the somewhat lighter atmosphere of his Sommaren med Monika, this marks a return to more gloomy fare from Bergman as Ake Gröberg and Harriet Andersson star in a tale set in a rundown travelling circus. [ADD] |
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– CinemaScope comes to Sweden when The Robe is shown at the Rigoletto Cinema. [ADD] |
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Switzerland |
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Charlie and Oona Chaplin’s fifth child, a boy they name Eugene, is born at Corsier-sur-Vevey. Chaplin had recently relinquished his US re-entry permit after becoming the subject of government and media speculation regarding his political leanings. [ADD] |
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– The Rex Cinema in Munich installs CinemaScope. [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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President Ho Chi Minh marks the official birth of the Vietnamese cinema when he signs the 147/SL Decree to establish the Vietnam Movie and Photography Enterprise. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1953 |
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Mexico |
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Raíces (Benito Alazraki) [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay (Lamberto V. Avellana) [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Ciganka (The Gypsy Girl) (Vojislav Nanovic) [ADD] |
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Daleko je sunce (Distance of the Sun) (Rados Novakovic) [ADD] |
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Nezgode lepe Irene [ADD] |
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The Last Bridge [ADD] |
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Slovenia |
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Vesna (Frantisek Cap) [ADD] |
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South Africa |
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Song of Africa [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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Halici kiz (Muhsin Ertugrul) [ADD] |
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Karanlik dünya (The Dark World) (Metin Erksan) [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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Việt Nam trên đuờng thắng lợi (Việt Nam on the Road to Victory) [ADD] |
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Zaire |
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Les Pneus Gonfles [ADD] |
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