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The History of Cinema: 1972 |
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Mexico |
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Police find Christian Brando, the kidnapped son of actor Marlon Brando. Christian’s mother, Anna Kashfi, who was married to Brando from 1957 to 1959, is found guilty of hiring a group of people to kidnap the 13-year-old boy. [ADD] |
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– The Ariel Prize is reinstated. [ADD] |
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Nepal |
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New Zealand |
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– The country’s first colour movie is released. [ADD] |
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Nigeria |
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– The government’s Indigenisation Decree, seeking to return ownership of the country’s 300-odd cinemas from foreign proprietors to Nigerians, comes into force. [ADD] |
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Peru |
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The country’s film industry is ruled by Ley del Fondamento de la Industria Cinematográfico under the military government of general Juan Velasco. [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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– Following the rise to power of Ferdinand Marcos, the Board of Censors for Motion Pictures (BCMP) demand that producers submit a finished script before they begin filming. [ADD] |
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Poland |
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– Andrzej Zulawski’s Diabel (The Devil), one of the few films to be banned in a communist country on moral rather than political grounds, is released. [ADD] |
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Portugal |
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Manoel de Oliveira’s O Passado e o Presente (The Past and the Present), starring Maria de Saisset and Barbara Vieira is released. [ADD] |
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Senegal |
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– The government establishes the Société d'importation et d'exploitation cinématographique (SIDEC) to regulate and control the film industry. [ADD] |
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Singapore |
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Spain |
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The body of 65-year-old George Sanders is found in a hotel room in Casteldefells near Barcelona. The actor was lying next to five empty tubes of Nembutal and a suicide note that read "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." [ADD] |
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Sri Lanka |
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– The National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka is founded to promote, develop and encourage the film industry. [ADD] |
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Thailand |
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– The government subsidy to promote 35mm film production ceases. [ADD] |
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– Responsibility for film censorship passes from the government to a film censorship board made up entirely of the police department, and headed by the prime minister‘s military son. [ADD] |
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Tunisia |
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– Ibrahim Babai’s Et demain… (And Tomorrow…), the country’s first socially aware film, is released. [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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– Turkey produces a record-breaking 299 films in 1972. [ADD] |
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USSR |
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Alexei Romanov, the reactionary head of Soviet cinema, is replaced [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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In Hanoi on a tour of Vietnam, Jane Fonda makes the first of 10 scheduled radio broadcasts in which she criticises President Nixon and the governments position on Vietnam. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1972 |
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Mexico |
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El castillo de la pureza (Arturo Ripstein) [ADD] |
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El Rincón de las vírgenes (Nest of Virgins) (Alberto Isaac) [ADD] |
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Morocco |
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Les Milles et une mains (A Thousand and One Nights) (Souheil Ben Barka) [ADD] |
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Wechma (Traces) (Hamid Benani) [ADD] |
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Niger |
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Toula (Mustafa Alassane) [ADD] |
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Paraguay |
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Cuando pases el umbral [ADD] |
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Hosanna en las alturas [ADD] |
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Poland |
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Jak daleko stad, jak blisko (How Far It Is and Yet How Near) (Tadeusz Konwicki) [ADD] |
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Perla w koronie (Pearl in the Crown) (Kazimierz Kutz) [ADD] |
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Romania |
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Felix si Otilia (Felix and Otilia) (Julian Mihu) [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Kako umreti (How to Die) (Miomir ‘Miki’ Stamenkovic) [ADD] |
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Tragovi crne devojke (The Traces of a Dark Girl) (Zdravko Randic) [ADD] |
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Spain |
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Mi querida señorita (My Dear Lady) (Jaime de Armiñan) [ADD] |
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Sri Lanka |
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Nidhanaya (The Treasure) (Lester James Peries) [ADD] |
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Sweden |
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Nybyggarna (The New Land) (Jan Troell) [ADD] |
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Switzerland |
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Le Retour d’Afrique (Alain Tanner) [ADD] |
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Syria |
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Al-Makhdu’un (The Dupes) (Tewfik Saleh) [ADD] |
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The Leopard (Nabil Maleh) [ADD] |
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The Seventh Day (Mohamed Malas) [ADD] |
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Thailand |
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Chu (Adulterer) (Somboonsuk Niyomsiri) [ADD] |
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Mae Eye Saearn (Chutima Suwannarat) [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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Agit (Elegy) (Yilmaz Guney) [ADD] |
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Dönüş (The Return) (Türkan Soray) [ADD] |
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Turkmenistan |
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Nevestka (The Daughter-in-Law) (Khodzha Kuli Narliyev) [ADD] |
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Ukraine |
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Propavshaya gramota (Boris Ivchenko) [ADD] |
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USSR |
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Solyaris (Solaris) (Andrei Tarkovsky) [ADD] |
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A zori zeds tikhie (The Dawns Here Are Quiet) (Stanislav Rostotsky) [ADD] |
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Yugoslavia |
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Scenes from the Life of Shock Workers (Bata Cengic) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1972 |
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