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The History of Cinema: 1969

Algeria - Egypt

Algeria

1/7 -

The government nationalises all the country’s film companies in an attempt to force US majors to relinquish their interests. [ADD]

- The Federation Pan-Africaine des Cineastes (FEPACI), the professional organisation of African filmmakers, is founded in Algiers. [ADD]

Argentina

Oct -

Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino publish their manifesto, ‘Towards a Third Cinema (Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World)'. [ADD]

– Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino and Gerardo Vallejo found Cine Liberation. Their slogan is ‘film as a gun.’ [ADD]

Australia

May -

The Film and Television Committee of the Australian Council of the Arts recommends the foundation of a film development corporation, a national film school and an experimental film fund. The recommendations are implemented within the next three years. [ADD]

Bolivia

– Jorge Sanjinés Yawar Mallku (Blood of the Condor) is released. The film dramatises the sterilisation of Quechuan women by the American Peace Corps. Both Bolivian and American governments attempt to ban the film. [ADD]

Brazil

– The government film agency Embrafilme is created. [ADD]

Burkina Faso

– French distributors boycott the country’s cinemas after their monopoly of the market is destroyed when the government nationalises the cinemas. [ADD]

– The first Pan-African Film Festival is held at Ouagadougou. [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

29/12 -

Jiri Trnka, producer of puppet films from the forties to the mid-sixties dies after a long illness at the age of 57. [ADD]

– The comparative freedom of expression recently enjoyed by filmmakers draws to a close following the deployment of troops in Prague. Milos Forman remains in Paris after he and fellow director Jiri Menzel are warned about depicting unfavourable conditions of the working class. [ADD]

Denmark

– Censorship for adults is repealed, resulting in a boom in the soft porn film industry.[ADD]

Other Key Films of 1969

Andorra

Automòbil club (JM Mitjà, Xavier Llobera) [ADD]

Fotogrames-68 (Joan Burgués Martisella) [ADD]

Armenia

Karine (Arman Manaryan) [ADD]

Menq (We) (Artavazd Peleshian) [ADD]

Saroyan yeghbayrnere (Saroyan Brothers) (Khoren Abrahamyan, Frunze Dolatyan) [ADD]

Bangladesh

Abanchito (Undesirable) (Kamal Ahmed) [ADD]

Ato Tuku Asha (So Little Hope) (Mita) [ADD]

Beder Meya (The Snake Charmer’s Daughter) (Nurul Haq Bachu) [ADD]

Joar Bhata (The Flow & Recession) [ADD]

Bolivia

Volver (To Return) (German Becker, Juan Pablo Donoso, Alberto Paciella, Jorge Ruiz) [ADD]

Bosnia

Zaseda (The Ambush) (Živojin Pavlovic) [ADD]

Brazil

O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guarneri (aka Antonio das Mortes) (Glauber Rocha) [ADD]

Macunaima (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade) [ADD]

Bulgaria

Ikonostasyt (Iconostasis) (Todor Dinov, Hristo Hristov) [ADD]

Cambodia

Rose de Bokor (Prince Norodom Sihanouk) [ADD]

Chad

The Child of Chad (Edouard Sailly) [ADD]

Chile

Caliche Sangriento (Helvio Soto) [ADD]

El chacal de Nahueltoro (Miguel Littin) [ADD]

Croatia

Bitka na Neretvi (Battle on the River Neretva) (Veljko Bulajic) [ADD]

Cuba

La Primera carga al machete (Manuel Octavio Gómez) [ADD]

Cyprus

Dakrya kai diplopennies (Tears and Strings) (Kostas Doukas) [ADD]

O paras o maskaras ( Money - the Clown) (George Katsouris, Kostas Farmakas) [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

Ecce Homo Homolka (Behold Homolka) (Jaroslav Papoušek) [ADD]

Kladivo na čarodějnice (Witches‘ Hammer) (Otakar Vavra) [ADD]

Larks On A String (Jiri Menzel) [ADD]

Vtackovia, siroty a blazni (Birds, Orphans and Fools) (Juraj Jakubisko) [ADD]

Zert (The Joke) (Jaromil Jires) [ADD]

Egypt

Al-Ard (The Earth) (Youssef Chahine) [ADD]

Al-Mummiya (The Mummy) (Shadi Abd al-Salam) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1969