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The History of Cinema: 1968 |
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13/9 - |
Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, Theorem, is seized by order of the courts. [ADD] |
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18/9 - |
Six days after being seized by the public prosecutor in Rome, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem receives the Grand Prix of the International Catholic Office of Cinema at the Venice Film Festival. [ADD] |
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29/11 - |
Romain Gary's French film, Les Oiseaux vont mourir au Péron (The Birds Come to Die in Peru), is banned throughout Italy. [ADD] |
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Sergio Leone’s ‘ballet of the dead,’ C’era una volt ail West (Once Upon a Time in the West), is released. Co-written by Leone with Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, the film stars Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and, playing against type, Henry Fonda as a cold-hearted, steely-eyed killer. [ADD] |
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– Of the 254 films produced in Italy in 1968 (compared to 182 in 1965), approximately 40 are erotic comedies. [ADD] |
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Moldova |
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– The country’s first cartoon feature, The Goat with Three Kids, is released. It is based on Ion Creanga's fairy-tale of the same name. [ADD] |
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Morocco |
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– Conquer to Live (Mohamed B A Tazi, Ahmed Mesnaoui) and When the Dates Ripen (Abdelaziz Ramdani, Larbi Bennani), the first feature films directed by Moroccan filmmakers, are released. [ADD] |
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Portugal |
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In response to a report on the state of Portuguese cinema, Azeredo Perdigão, the president of the Board of Directors of the Gulbenkian Foundation proposes the creation of a corporation of independent film makers, to be subsidised by the Foundation. [ADD] |
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Romania |
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– Lucian Pintilie’s Reconstituirea is banned by the authorities one month after its release. [ADD] |
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25/3 - |
Dom kallar oss mods, Stefan Jarl and Jan Lindkvist’s documentary about alienated teens is released. It is the first mainstream film to feature unsimulated sexual intercourse. [ADD] |
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29/9 - |
Ingmar Bergman’s Skammen (Shame), starring Liv Ullmann and Max Von Sydow, is released. [ADD] |
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Tanzania |
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– The Tanzania Film Company is established. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1968 |
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Diabolik (Mario Bava) [ADD] |
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Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci) [ADD] |
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Japan |
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Shinjuku dorobo nikki (Diary of a Shinjuku Thief) (Nagisa Oshima) [ADD] |
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Jordan |
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Fight Until Freedom (Abdel Wahab el-Hindi) [ADD] |
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Storm with Petra (Farouk Agrama) [ADD] |
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Kenya |
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Mlevi (Paul Singh) [ADD] |
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Latvia |
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Dear Editor (Imants Brils) [ADD] |
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Lithuania |
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Ciutyte ruta [ADD] |
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Macedonia |
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Planinata na gnevot (Mountain of Wrath) (Ljubisa Georgijevski) [ADD] |
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Malaysia |
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Raja bersiong (Vampire King) (Jamil Sulong) [ADD] |
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Paraguay |
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Metamorfosis [ADD] |
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Peru |
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El embajador y yo [ADD] |
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Pasion Oculta (A. B. Crevenna) [ADD] |
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Las Sicodelicas (Gilberto Martinez) [ADD] |
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El Tesoro de Atahualpa (Vicente Oroná) [ADD] |
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Poland |
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Lalka (The Doll) (Wojciech Has) [ADD] |
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Senegal |
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Contras City (Djibril Diop Mambéty) [ADD] |
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Mandabi (The Money Order) (Ousmane Sembene) [ADD] |
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Sweden |
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Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) (Ingmar Bergman) [ADD] |
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Thailand |
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Rak Aey (Naeramitre) [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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Ukraine |
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Kamennyy krest (Stone Cross) (Leonid Osyka) [ADD] |
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Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala (The Eve of Ivan Kupalo) (Yuri Ilyenko) [ADD] |
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Uruguay |
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Me Gustan los Estudiantes (I Like Students) (Mario Handler) [ADD] |
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Uzbekistan |
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Tachkent, City of the Bread (Choukrat Abassov) [ADD] |
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Yugoslavia |
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Nevinost bez zastite (Innocence Unprotected) (Dusan Makavejev) [ADD] |
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