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The History of Cinema: 1953

 

 

 

 

 

   

Macedonia - Zaire

     
   

Sommaren med Monika (Sweden, 1953)

     
     
   

Macedonia

   

 

   

Vardar Film produces 20 documentary films in 1953. [ADD]

   

 

   

– The country’s first advertising films are produced. [ADD]

   

 

     
   

 

   

Malta

     
    Single-Handed (1953)
   

 

   

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]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Mexico

     
    Les Orgeuilleux (1953)
   

 

   

Actor Gérard Philipe arrives in Alvaro to begin filming Yves Allégret's Les Orgueilleux (The Proud Ones) with Michele Morgan. [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Pakistan

   

 

   

– The East Bengal Provincial Govt establishes a film division under the Public Relations Division. [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Philippines

   

 

   

The Federation of Motion Picture Producers in South East Asia is founded.   Member countries are Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan. [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Sweden

     
    Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
   

 

   

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]

   

 

   

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]

   

 

   

CinemaScope comes to Sweden when The Robe is shown at the Rigoletto Cinema. [ADD]

 

 

   

 

     
   

Switzerland

     
    Oona & Charlie Chaplin
   

 

   

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]

   

 

   

– The Rex Cinema in Munich installs CinemaScope[ADD]

   

 

 

 

     
   

Vietnam

   

 

   

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]

     
     
     
     
   

Other Key Films of 1953

   

Mexico

     
    Raices (1953)
   

 

   

Raíces (Benito Alazraki) [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Philippines

     
    Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay (1953)
   

 

   

Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay (Lamberto V. Avellana) [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Serbia

   

 

   

Ciganka (The Gypsy Girl) (Vojislav Nanovic) [ADD]

   

 

   

Daleko je sunce (Distance of the Sun) (Rados Novakovic) [ADD]

   

 

   

Nezgode lepe Irene [ADD]

   

 

   

The Last Bridge [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Slovenia

     
    Vesna (1953)
   

 

   

Vesna (Frantisek Cap) [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

South Africa

   

 

   

Song of Africa [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Turkey

   

 

   

Halici kiz (Muhsin Ertugrul) [ADD]

   

 

   

Karanlik dünya (The Dark World) (Metin Erksan) [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Vietnam

   

 

   

Vit Nam trên đung thng li (Vit Nam on the Road to Victory) [ADD]

   

 

   

 

     
   

Zaire

   

 

   

Les Pneus Gonfles [ADD]

     
     
     
   

The History of Cinema: 1953

    Albania - Italy
     
    France
     
    Gt. Britain
     
    USA January - June
     
    USA July - December
     
     
     
     
     

 

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