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The History of Cinema: 1956 |
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Myanmar - Vietnam |
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– The Norwegian Film Institute is established. [ADD] |
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Pakistan |
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Shaikh Hassan’s Umer Marvi, the country’s first Sindhi language film, is released. [ADD] |
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Peru |
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– The Cinema Cuzco Club is founded by Víctor Chambi and Manuel Chambi, Luis Figueroa and Eulogio Nishiyama. [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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– Lamberto V. Avellana’s Anak dalita (Child of Sorrow) wins the Golden Harvest Award (Best Picture) at this year’s Asia-Pacific Film Festival. [ADD] |
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Singapore |
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– Ho Ah Loke’s Keris Film Productions merges with Loke Wan Tho’s Cathay Organisation. The new company is named Cathay-Keris Film Productions and is based in East Coast Road. [ADD] |
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South Africa |
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– 20th Century-Fox buy out Isadore William Schlesinger’s interests in African Film Productions (AFP). [ADD] |
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Sri Lanka |
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The peasants of a Ceylonese village ring temple bells in the panicked belief that they are being invaded by paratroopers. Police are called to explain that they are merely actors in David Lean’s forthcoming The Bridge on the River Kwai. [ADD] |
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– In an attempt to develop the domestic film industry, the newly-elected government puts an end to the production of Sinhalese films abroad. [ADD] |
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USSR |
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– The Kinopanorama widescreen system is demonstrated in Moscow. [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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– The Vietnam Film Studio is established in Hanoi. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1956 |
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Myanmar |
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Puerto Rico |
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Modesta (Benjamín Doniger) [ADD] |
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El Santero [ADD] |
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Romania |
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Scurtă istorie (A Short History) (Ion Popescu-Gopo) [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Veliki I mali (Great and Small) (Vladimir Pogacic) [ADD] |
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Singapore |
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Slovenia |
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Dolina miru (Valley of Peace) [ADD] |
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Spain |
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Fedra (Manuel Mur Oti) [ADD] |
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Sri Lanka |
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Rekava (The Line of Destiny) (Lester James Peries) [ADD] |
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Tunisia |
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Al-Aahd Al-Jadid (The New Era) (André Bessis) [ADD] |
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Me hamed Kouidi (André Bessis) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1956 |
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