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The History of Cinema: 1965

Afghanistan - Greece

Afghanistan

– Afghan Film is established to produce documentaries and newsreels about government meetings and conferences. [ADD]

Belgium

– Andre Delvaux’s De Man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short), the first film to receive financial aid from the government, is released. [ADD]

Brazil

Jul -

Director Glauber Rocha’s book The Aesthetics of Violence, in which he describes Cinema Novo as ‘ugly, sad films, those screaming desperate films in which reason has not always prevailed,’ is published. [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

12/11 -

Milos Forman’s second film, Lasky Jedne Plavovlasky (Loves of a Blonde), is released. [ADD]

– Jan Kadar’s Obchod na korzu (The Shop on Main Street) is released.   Veteran actress Ida Kaminska stars opposite Jozef Kroner as the Jewish proprietress of a button shop which comes under the management of an Aryan controller when the country is under Nazi occupation. [ADD]

Egypt

3/3 -

Henry Barakat’s bleak naturalist drama Al Haram (The Sin) is released.  Faten Hamama stars. [ADD]

East Germany

– Kurt Maetzig’s Das Kaninchen bin ich (I am the Rabbit) and Franj Vogel’s Denk bloß nicht, ich heule (Just Don’t Think I’ll Cry) are both banned by the 11^th Plenary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) for unfavourable depictions of party officials. [ADD]

West Germany

– The government establishes the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film (Young German Film Committee) to give financial support to new German films. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1965

Andorra

El frailecillo y su caridad (Lluís Burgués) [ADD]

Argentina

Crónica de un niño solo (Chronicle of a Boy Alone) (Leonardo Favio) [ADD]

Armenia

Martiros Saroyan (Laert Vagharshyan) [ADD]

Bangladesh

Nadi-O-Nadi (The River and the woman) (Sadeq Khan) [ADD]

Mala (Mustafiz) [ADD]

Roopban (Salahuddin) [ADD]

Belarus

Alpiyskaya ballada (Boris Stepanov) [ADD]

Bolivia

Aysa! (Jorge Sanjines) [ADD]

China

Da nao tian gong (Uproar in Heaven) (Wan Laiming) [ADD]

Lie Huozhong Yongsheng (Red Crag) (Choui Khoua) [ADD]

Wutai jiemei (Stage Sisters) (Jin Xie) [ADD]

Cyprus

Agapes kai Kaimoi (Love Affairs and Heartbreaks) (George Filis) [ADD]

To Televtaio Fili (The Last Kiss) (George Filis) [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

Zlocin v dívcí skole (Crime in a Girls School) (Jirí Menzel) [ADD]

Georgia

Djildo (Giorgi Shengelaya) [ADD]

Mikha (Merab Kokochashvili) [ADD]

Mikela (Eldar Shengelaya) [ADD]

Wedding (Michael Kobakhidze) [ADD]

Greece

Blood on the Land (Vassilis Georgiadis) [ADD]

The Story of a Life (Yannis Dalianidis) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1965