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The History of Cinema: 1977

Algeria - Macedonia

Canada

30/12 -

Chris Ward’s compilation documentaries, The Beatles and Beyond and The Best of the Rolling Stones, are released. [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

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. [ADD]

Egypt

5/11 -

Misr Studios celebrates the 50th anniversary of Egyptian cinema. [ADD]

West Germany

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. [ADD]

– 80% of the finance for a typical German production is provided through a subsidy of some kind. [ADD]

Italy

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. [ADD]

Japan

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. [ADD]

29/12 -

Shigeyuki Yumane’s Wani to oum to ottosei, starring Hiromi Gô, is released. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1977

Algeria

Leila et las autres (Leila and the Others) (Sid Ali Mazif) [ADD]

Angola

Faz la Coragem, Camarada (Ruy Duarte de Carvalho) [ADD]

O Golpe (Francisco Henriques) [ADD]

Ponto da situacao (Francisco Henriques) [ADD]

Armenia

Ashnan arev (Bagrat Oganesyan) [ADD]

Nahapet (Henrik Malyan) [ADD]

Yerkunq (Frunze Dovlatyan) [ADD]

Bangladesh

Basundhara (Subash Dutta) [ADD]

Shimanapariye (Alamgir Kabir) [ADD]

Zadur Banshi (Abdul Latif Bachchu) [ADD]

Bolivia

Llocsi Caimanta, fuera de aquí (Jorge Sanjines) [ADD]

Cuba

El brigadista (Octavio Cortázar) [ADD]

West Germany

Der Amerikanische Freund (Wim Wenders) [ADD]

Bolweiser (TV) (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [ADD]

Hitler – Eine Karriere (Joachim C. Fest) [ADD]

Hitler, A Film From Germany (Hans Jurgen Syberberg) [ADD]

Adolf und Marlene (Ulli Lommel) [ADD]

Stroszek (Werner Herzog) [ADD]

Greece

Big Shot (Pavlos Tassios) [ADD]

A Dream of Passion (Jules Dassin) [ADD]

Education (Yannis Typaldos) [ADD]

The Hunters (Theo Angelopoulos) [ADD]

Iphigenia (Michael Cacoyannis) [ADD]

The Struggle of the Blind (Mary Papaliou) [ADD]

Women Today (Poppy Alkoulis) [ADD]

Hong Kong

The Shaolin Invincibles [ADD]

Hungary

A Very Moral Night (Karoly Makk) [ADD]

India

The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray) [ADD]

Israel

Paratroopers (Judd Ne'eman) [ADD]

Italy

Padre Padrone (Paulo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani) [ADD]

Japan

The Boxer (Shuji Terayama) [ADD]

The Life of Chikuzan (Kaneto Shindo) [ADD]

Lithuania

Juodieji gandrai, elniukas ir Nida (Black Storks, a Young Deer, and Nida) (Petras Abukevicius) [ADD]

Riesutu duona (The Nut Bread) (Arunas Zebriunas) [ADD]

Macedonia

Adam 5 to 12 (Petar Gligorovski) [ADD]

Ispravi se, Delfina (Stand Up, Delfina) (Aleksandar Djurcinov) [ADD]

Presuda (The Verdict) (Trajche Popov) [ADD]

Tulgesh (Kole Manev) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1977