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Moldova - Zambia |
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Moldova |
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– The Documentary Film Studio in Chisinau is renamed the Moldova-Film Studio. [ADD] |
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– Cind omul nu-i la locul lui (When a Man is Not Himself), the country’s first fiction film, is released. [ADD] |
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Norway |
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– Arne Skouen’s Ni liv (Nine Lives) is released. It tells the true story of Jan Baalsruds, who escaped capture by the Nazi’s against the odds after his band of resistance fighters is wiped out. In 1991 Norwegian TV viewers will vote the film the best Norwegian movie ever made. [ADD] |
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Andrzej Wajda’s second feature, Kanal, a tale of the 1944 Warsaw uprising, is released. [ADD] |
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Romania |
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– Ion Popescu-Gopo’s animated short Scurta istorie (A Short History) (1956) wins the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. [ADD] |
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– The National Film Archives are established. [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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– Soja Jovanovic’s The Priest Cira and the Priest Spira, the country’s first colour film, is released. [ADD] |
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Sweden |
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Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal), Ingmar Bergman’s seventeenth film, is released. Filmed in 35 days, the film stars Max von Sydow and Bengt Ekerot. [ADD] |
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78-year-old director Victor Sjöström plays the leading role in Ingmar Bergman’s Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) opposite Ingrid Thulin, who plays his daughter-in-law and travelling companion on a journey from Stockholm to Lund. [ADD] |
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Thailand |
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– The Go Brothers business, which belongs to the Punworarak family, is founded as the Sri Talaplu Movie Theatre in Thonburi province. [ADD] |
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Tunisia |
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– The Société Anonyme Tunisienne de Production d'expansion Cinématographique (S.A.T.P.E.C.), the country’s first importation, production and distribution company, is established. [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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– Publication of the Dien Anh (Cinema) newspaper begins. [ADD] |
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Zambia |
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– The country’s first multi-racial cinema opens in Lusaka. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1957 |
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Paraguay |
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El trueno entre las hojas (Isabel Sarli, Armando Bo) [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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Badjao (Lamberto V. Avellana) [ADD] |
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Poland |
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Czlowiek na torze (Man on the Tracks) (Andrzej Munk) [ADD] |
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Zimowy zmierzch (A Winter Dusk) (Stanislaw Lenartowicz) [ADD] |
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Puerto Rico |
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El Cacique [ADD] |
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La Plena (Amílcar Tirado) [ADD] |
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Romania |
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The Lucky Mill (Victor Iliu) [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Flight Over the Swamp (Aleksander Petrovic) [ADD] |
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Subotom uvece (Saturday Evening) (Vladimir Pogacic) [ADD] |
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Singapore |
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Pontianak (B. Narayan Rao) [ADD] |
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Spain |
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El Último Cuplé (The Last Torch Song) (Juan de Orduña) [ADD] |
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Tajikistan |
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Dakhunda (Boris Kimiyagarov) [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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Gelinin muradi (The Bride’s Intention) (Atif Yilmaz) [ADD] |
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USSR |
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Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes Are Flying) (Mikheil Kalatozishvili) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1957 |
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