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The History of Cinema: 1958 |
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20/5 - |
William Wyler begins filming a new version of Ben-Hur in Rome. [ADD] |
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10/7 - |
The eight-year marriage of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is annulled by the Vatican, leaving the way clear for Bergman to marry Swedish theatre producer Lars Schmidt. [ADD] |
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1/9 - |
The number of films in competition at the Venice Film Festival reaches a low with only 14 films competing – down from 31 in 1952. [ADD] |
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The arrival of Brigitte Bardot at the Venice Film Festival creates a mini riot. [ADD] |
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– Ente Cinema SpA is founded. [ADD] |
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Macedonia |
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– Zivorad ‘Zika’ Mitrovic’s Mis Ston (Miss Stone), the country’s first colour film, is released. [ADD] |
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Mexico |
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– The Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences discontinues its Ariel Awards, which were founded in 1946, due to the poor state of the Mexican film industry. [ADD] |
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Namibia |
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– US filmmaker John Marshall begins his series of documentaries about the country. [ADD] |
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Pakistan |
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| 17/7 - |
The first annual Nigar Awards are launched by film journalist Ilyas Rasheedi. [ADD] |
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Poland |
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Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamonds), the third part of Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy is released. Zbigniew Cybulski stars as a young member of a Nationalist underground movement in a provincial Polish town instructed to assassinate the new Communist district secretary. [ADD] |
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Spain |
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The Motion Picture Export Association of America (MPEA) stops its boycott of the Spanish market after agreeing to a quota system (known as the baremo) of one Spanish film for every four US imports. [ADD] |
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15/11 - |
Tyrone Power suffers a massive heart attack in Madrid while filming a swordfight scene with George Sanders for Solomon and Sheba. He dies an hour later without regaining consciousness. [ADD] |
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USSR |
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Mar - |
A Russian Kinopanorama film is shown at the Mir Theatre in Moscow. [ADD] |
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1/9 - |
The second part of Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible) is released. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1958 |
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Moldova |
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Ataman Kodr (Olga Uritskaia, Mihail Kalik, Boris Ritsarev) [ADD] |
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Paraguay |
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La sangre y la semilla (Alberto del Bois) [ADD] |
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Poland |
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Ostatni dzien lata (The Last Day of Summer) (Tadeus Konwicki) [ADD] |
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Romania |
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Ciulinii Baraganului (Baragan Thistles) (Louis Daquin, Gheorghe Vitanidis) [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Three Steps into Emptiness (Vojislav Nanovic) [ADD] |
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Singapore |
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Anak Pontianak (Vampire Child) (Ramon A. Estella) [ADD] |
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Mahsuri (B. Narayan Rao) [ADD] |
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Thailand |
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Swan Meard (Rat Pestanyee) [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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Alageyik (The Fallow Deer) (Atif Yilmaz) [ADD] |
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Bir soförün gizli defteri (Atif Yilmaz) [ADD] |
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Bu vatanin çocuklari (The Children of this Country) (Atif Yilmaz) [ADD] |
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Dokuz dagin efesi (The Hero of the Nine Mountains) (Metin Erksan) [ADD] |
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Kumpanya (The Throng) (Atif Yilmaz) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1958 |
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