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The History of Cinema: 1961 |
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Nigeria - Vietnam |
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Nigeria |
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– Segun Olusola’s short film My Father’s Burden is released. [ADD] |
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Senegal |
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The Senegalese Cinema News becomes a weekly production on the day of Senegal’s independence. [ADD] |
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Slovenia |
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Bostjan Hladnik’s Ples v dezju (Dancing in the Rain) is released. It has since been voted the best Slovenian film in history. [ADD] |
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Somalia |
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– Hosein Manrok’s short film The Love that Knows No Barrier is released. [ADD] |
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Spain |
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The head of the Spanish Film Administration is fired following the success of Viridiana, the first film made by Luis Buńuel in his homeland for 29 years. The winner of the Cannes Golden Palm, the film was shown before it could be inspected in Madrid, and was subsequently denounced by both the Vatican and the Spanish government because of its depiction of necrophilia. [ADD] |
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Switzerland |
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French director Jean-Luc Godard marries Danish actress Anna Karina after directing her in Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman). [ADD] |
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Kon Ichikawa’s Nobi (Fires on the Plain) wins the top award at the Locarno Film Festival. [ADD] |
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Tajikistan |
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– Boris Kimiyagarov’s Kava-i Ahingar (The Banner of the Blacksmith), the first adaptation of Shahname literature, is released. [ADD] |
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Thailand |
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– Ratana Pestonji’s Prae Dum (Black Silk), one of the first Thai films to be screened at International film festivals, is released. It is shown in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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– Following 1960's military coup, aspiring filmmaker Yilmaz Guney is found guilty of ‘communist propaganda’ for a story he published at the age of 18. [ADD] |
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USSR |
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Kaneto Shindo’s Hadaka no shima (Naked Island) wins top prize at the Moscow International Film Festival. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1961 |
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Pakistan |
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Gul Bakaoli (Munshi Dil) [ADD] |
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Paraguay |
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La burrerita de Ypacarai (Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli) [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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Noli me tangere (Touch Me Not) (Gerardo de Leon) [ADD] |
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Poland |
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Dzis w nocy umrze miasto (A town Will Die Tonight) (Jan Rybkowski) [ADD] |
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Matka Joanna od aniolów (Mother Joan of the Angels) (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) [ADD] |
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Samson (Andrzej Wajda) [ADD] |
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Romania |
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S-a furat o bomba (Stolen Bomb) (Ion Popescu-Gopo) [ADD] |
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Senegal |
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Une nation est nee (Paulin Soumanou Vieyra) [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Dvoje (And Love Has Vanished) (Aleksander Petrovic) [ADD] |
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The Couple (Aleksandar Petrovic) [ADD] |
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Singapore |
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Hang Jebat (Hussein Haniff) [ADD] |
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Seniman Bujang Lapok (The Nitwit Movie Stars) (P Ramlee) [ADD] |
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Spain |
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Plácido (Luis Garcia Berlanga) [ADD] |
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Sweden |
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Sĺsom i en spegel (Through a Glass Darkly) (Ingmar Bergman) [ADD] |
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Syria |
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Al Wadi al akhdar (The Green Valley) [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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Yasak Ask (Forbidden Love) (Halit Refig) [ADD] |
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USSR |
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Banya (The Bathhouse) (Anatoli Karanovich, Sergei Yutkevitch) [ADD] |
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Chistoe nebo (Clear Skies) (Grigori Chukhrai) [ADD] |
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Povest plamennykh let (The Flaming Years) (Yulia Solntseva) [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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Chim Vanh Khuyen (Passerine Bird) [ADD] |
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Lua Trung Tuyen (A Fire In The Battlefield) [ADD] |
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Vo Chong A Phu (A Phu And His Wife) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1961 |
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