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The History of Cinema: 1966

Algeria - West Germany

Argentina

– Fernando Solanas begins filming the agit-prop documentary, Hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) [ADD]

Brazil

– The military regime supports the opening of a new National Film Institute. [ADD]

Chad

– Edouard Sailly’s Les Abattoirs de Forcha, a 15-minute documentary, is released. [ADD]

China

– Aa a result of the Cultural Revolution all film production ceases and the Beijing Film Academy is closed down. [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

18/11 -

28-year-old Jiri Menzel’s Ostre sledované vlaky (Closely Observed Trains) is released to public and critical acclaim. [ADD]

Dahomey (Benin)

– Pascal Abikanlou’s short, Ganvié, mon village, is released. [ADD]

Denmark

19/8 -

Henning Carlsen announces the release of his screen adaptation of Knut Hamsen's Sult (Hunger), starring Per Oscarsson and Gunnel Lindblom. [ADD]

Egypt

30/12 -

The Ministry of National Culture censors Tewfik Saleh’s Al-Moutamarridoune (The Rebels) because of its allegorical criticism of the Nasser regime. [ADD]

East Germany

– The entire roster of DEFA’s contemporary films are denied distribution by the authorities because they are deemed to show that communist principles are not strictly adhered to at all times. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1966

Algeria

L’Aube des damnes (Dawn of the Damned) (Ahmed Rachedi) [ADD]

Rih al awras (The Winds of the Aures) (Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina) [ADD]

Armenia

Artakarg handznararutyun (An Extraordinary Assignment) (Erazm Karanyan, Stepan Kevorkov) [ADD]

Avdoi Mekenan (Avdoi’s Car) (Dmitri Kesayants) [ADD]

Bareve, yes em (Hello, That’s Me) (Frunze Dovlatyan) [ADD]

Austria

Der Kongreß amüsiert sich (Congress of Love) (Geza von Radvanyi) [ADD]

Bangladesh

Behula (Zahir Raihan) [ADD]

Bhaiya (Brother) (Kazi Zahir) [ADD]

Kagozer Nouka (The Paper Boat) (Subhas Dutta) [ADD]

Son of Pakistan (Fazlul Haque) [ADD]

Bolivia

Ukamau (And So It Is) (Jorge Sanjines) [ADD]

Cambodia

Apsara (Prince Norodom Sihanouk) [ADD]

Chad

Largeau (Edouard Sailly) [ADD]

China

Report from China (Toshi Tokieda) [ADD]

Victory of Chairman Mao’s Thought [ADD]

Cuba

La Muerte de un burócrata (Death of a Bureaucrat) (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

Intimní osvětlení (Intimate Lighting) (Ivan Passer) [ADD]

Návrat ztraceného syna (The Return of the Prodigal Son) (Ewald Schorm) [ADD]

O slavnosti a hostech (The Party and the Guests) (Jan Nemec) [ADD]

Perlicky na dne (Pearls of the Deep) (Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jirí Menzel, Jan Nemec, Evald Schorm) [ADD]

Sedmikrásky (The Daisies) (Vera Chytilová) [ADD]

Dominican Republic

Tu Tambien  [ADD]

East Germany

Die Söhne der großen Bärin (The Sons of Great Bear) (Josef Mach) [ADD]

Spur der Steine (The Trace of Stones) (Frank Beyer) [ADD]

Georgia

Giorgobistve (Falling Leaves) (Otar Iosseliani) [ADD]

Londre (Tamaz Meliava) [ADD]

Matsi Khvitia (He Didn’t Want to Kill) (Giorgi Shengelaya) [ADD]

Qolga (Umbrella) (Mikheil Kobakhidze) [ADD]

West Germany

Abschied von gestern - (Anita G.) (Yesterday Girl) (Alexander Kluge) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1966