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The History of Cinema: 1968

Algeria - Iraq

Algeria

– The O.N.C.I.C (national office for the film industry) is founded. [ADD]

Belgium

– Albert Bert takes over the Majestiek cinema in Harlebeke and turns it into the country’s first Duplex cinema. [ADD]

Cuba

– The first Festival of New Latin American Cinema is staged in Havana. [ADD]

Denmark

20/3 -

Director Carl Theodor Dreyer dies in Copenhagen at the age of 79. Dreyer had not made a film since the poor reception of Gertrud in 1965. [ADD]

West Germany

– The Hamburg Filmmakers Cooperative boycotts the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, demanding recognition of its 16mm short films. [ADD]

Greece

– Cinema ticket sales reach an all-time high of 137 million. [ADD]

India

5/1 -

Louis Malle arrives in India to film a documentary film entitled Calcutta. [ADD]

– Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’ Char Shaher Ek Kahani (A Tale of Four Cities) triggers a censorship struggle in the Supreme Court. [ADD]

– Bombay cinemas close in protest at Maharshtra State taxation policy. [ADD]

– The Khosla committee submits its report on censorship to the government. [ADD]

– Mrinal Sen and Arun Kaul issue a manifesto for New Indian Cinema. [ADD]

– The state-owned Jyoti-Chitraban film studio opens in Kahilipara, Guwahati, Assam. [ADD]

Indonesia

– The National Film Production Council (DPFN) is established to encourage work of high quality. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1968

Argentina

La Hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialismo, la violencia y la liberación (The Hour of the Furnaces) (Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas) [ADD]

Martín Fierro (Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson) [ADD]

Armenia

Sayat Nova (Colour of Pomegranate) (Sergei Parajanov) [ADD]

Austria

Moos auf den Steinen (Moss on the Stones) (Georg Lhotzky) [ADD]

Bangladesh

Abhirbav (The Appearance) (Subhash Dutta) [ADD]

Moina Moti (Kazi Zahir) [ADD]

Soye Nadia Jage Pani (The River Flow) [ADD]

Bolivia

Crimen sin olvido (Jorge Mistral) [ADD]

Mina Alaska (Jorge Ruiz) [ADD]

Ukamau (Jorge Sanjines Aramayo) [ADD]

Brazil

Fome de Amor (Hunger for Love) (Nelson Pereira dos Santos) [ADD]

Cuba

Lucía (Humberto Solás) [ADD]

Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment) (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) [ADD]

Cyprus

Right of the Private Individual (Michael Papas) [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

Spalovač mrtvol (The Cremator) (Juraj Herz) [ADD]

Vsichni dobrí rodáci (All My Good Countrymen) (Vojtech Jasny) [ADD]

Egypt

Al-Moutamarridoune (The Rebels) (Tewfik Saleh) [ADD]

Estonia

Hullumeelsus (Madness) (Kaljo Kiisk) [ADD]

Finland

Punahilkka (Timo Bergholm) [ADD]

Georgia

Arachveulebrivi Gamopena (An Unusual Exhibition) (Eldar Shengelaya) [ADD]

The Fall of the Leaves (Othar Oisseliani) [ADD]

West Germany

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos (Alexander Kluge) [ADD]

Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub) [ADD]

Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life) (Werner Herzog) [ADD]

Greece

Girls in the Sun (V. Georgiadis) [ADD]

Parenthesis (Takis Kanellopoulos) [ADD]

Hungary

Eltávozott nap (The Girl) (Márta Mészáros) [ADD]

India

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (Satyajit Ray) [ADD]

Iraq

The Experiment [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1968