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The History of Cinema: 1970

Angola - Hungary

Angola

– Sarah Maldoror’s Des fusil pour Banta, the first film made in Angola, is released. [ADD]

Australia

Oct -

Movietone News and Cinesound Review newsreels merge. [ADD]

– The Australian Film Development Corporation is founded to act as a film investment bank. [ADD]

– The Experimental Film and Television Fund is established. The first film it finances is a documentary about anti-Vietnam demonstrations in Sydney.[ADD]

Bolivia

– Jorge Sanjines latest film, The Ways of Death, is accidentally destroyed at the laboratory to which it is sent for processing. [ADD]

Chile

- Militant filmmaker Miguel Littin publishes the ‘Manifesto of Chilean Film Makers of the Popular Unity.’ [ADD]

- The release of Pedro Chaskel and Hector Rios’ Venceremos marks the beginning of Chile’s documentary film boom. [ADD]

Finland

– The inaugural Tampere Film Festival, Scandinavia’s first, is held. [ADD]

– The Finnish Film Foundation is established. [ADD]

Hong Kong

- Raymond Chow founds Golden Harvest production company. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1970

Angola

Monangambee (Sarah Maldoror) [ADD]

Armenia

Menq enq, mer sarere (We and Our Mountains) (Henrik Malyan) [ADD]

Nachalo (The Beginning) (Gleb Panfilov) [ADD]

Bangladesh

Bindn Theke Britta [ADD]

Binimoy (The Exchange) (Subhash Dutta) [ADD]

Jiban Theke Neya (Zahir Raihan) [ADD]

Kothay Jeno Dekhechi (Nizamul Huq) [ADD]

Misar Kumari (The Queen of Egypt) (Karigor) [ADD]

Tansen (Rafiqul Bad Chowdhury) [ADD]

Benin

Le roi est mort en exil (Richard de Medeiros) [ADD]

Brazil

Os Deuses E Os Mortos (Ruy Guerra) [ADD]

Canada

Prologue (Robin Spry) [ADD]

Chile

El Chacal de Nahueltoro (Miguel Littin) [ADD]

China

Hong se niang zi jun (The Red Detachment of Women) (Jin Xie) [ADD]

Croatia

Tko pjeva zlo ne misli (He Who Sings Never Means Harm) (Branko Bauer) [ADD]

Cyprus

Communication (George Lanitis) [ADD]

To Teleftaio fili (The Last Kiss) (Georgios Filis) [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

Ucho (The Ear) (Karel Kachyna) [ADD]

Uz zase skácu pres kaluze (Jumping Over Puddles Again) (Karel Kachyna) [ADD]

Egypt

Al-Ikhtiyar (The Choice) (Youssef Chahine) [ADD]

Georgia

Iko Shashvi Mgalobeli (Once Upon a Time There was a Singing Blackbird) (Otar Iosseliani)

Peola (Baadur Tsuladze) [ADD]

West Germany

Der Amerikanische Soldat (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [ADD]

Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (Even Dwarfs Started Small) (Werner Herzog) [ADD]

Schulmädchen-Report: Was Eltern nicht für möglich halten (Schoolgirl Report) (Ernst Hofbauer) [ADD]

Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (Why Does Herr R Run Amok) (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [ADD]

Greece

Reconstruction (Theo Angelopoulos) [ADD]

Hungary

Égi bárány (Miklós Jancsó) [ADD]

Magasiskola (The Falcons) (István Gaál) [ADD]

Mérsékelt égöv (Temperate Zone) (Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács) [ADD]

Szerelmesfilm (Love Film) (István Szabó) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1970