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30/12 - |
Chris Ward’s compilation documentaries, The Beatles and Beyond and The Best of the Rolling Stones, are released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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2/5 - |
Osvobození Prahy (The Liberation of Prague), the third film in director Otakar Vávra's trilogy about events in Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich agreement, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Egypt |
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5/11 - |
Misr Studios celebrate the 50th anniversary of Egyptian cinema. [MORE] [ADD] |
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West Germany |
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18/11 - |
Theodor Kotulla's Aus einem deutschen Leben (Death Is My Trade), a film based on the life of the notorious Nazi Rudolph Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is released. Götz George plays Höss in an understated style that makes his deeds all the more horrifying. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– 80% of the finance for a typical German production is provided through a subsidy of some kind. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy |
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12/8 - |
Ettore Scola’s Una Giornata particolare (A Special Day), drawn from his own memories of a visit to Rome by Adolf Hitler to meet Benito Mussolini in May 1938, is released. Sophia Loren plays against type as a washed-out mother of six, while Marcello Mastroianni plays a homosexual radio announcer. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan |
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16/8 - |
Following the publication of his book containing extracts from his film Ai no corrida (In the Realm of the Senses), director Nagisa Oshima is charged with publishing licentious material. [MORE] [ADD] |
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29/12 - |
Shigeyuki Yumane’s Wani to oum to ottosei, starring Hiromi Gô, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nepal |
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– Kumari, the first Nepali film made in EastmanColor, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Poland |
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25/2 - |
Andrzej Wajda’s Czlowiek z Marmaru (Man of Marble) is finally released after four years. Krystyna Janda stars as a film student investigating the life of Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), a bricklayer hero of the 1950s. [MORE] [ADD] |
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South Africa |
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26/12 - |
Gibson Kente's musical, How Long, is banned and Kente and a number of his film crew are arrested. The film is the first to be produced and directed entirely by black South Africans. [MORE] [ADD] |
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23/5 - |
Luis Buñuel's Viridiana, starring Silvia Pinal and Francisco Rabal, is finally released in Spain sixteen years after it was made. [MORE] [ADD] |
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11/11 - |
A Royal decree abolishes film censorship and authorises the free importation of films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Switzerland |
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25/12 - |
Charles Chaplin dies in his sleep in Corsier-sur-Vevey at the age of 88. [MORE] [ADD] |
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27/12 - |
The funeral of Charles Chaplin takes place at the Anglican church in Vevey. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Thailand |
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The Motion Picture Export Association of America (MPEAA) boycotts film exports to Thailand in response to the increase in film import tax. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The first holographic movie is shown by a team led by Victor J Komar at NIFKI (Cinema and Photographic Research Institute of the Soviet Union). The film has to be viewed through special ports because of the narrow viewing angle. [MORE] [ADD] |
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