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The History of Cinema: 1980

Africa - Israel

Africa

– The Inter-African Consortium of Cinematograph Distribution (CIDC) buys out the near total monopoly of film distribution in Africa from a subsidiary of French distributor UGC. [ADD}

Australia

– The government offers tax benefits to film investors, thus transferring the financial burden of film production.   The result is a doubling of the number of films financed. [ADD}

Burundi

– Jean-Michel Hussi Nyamusimba’s short film, Ni-Ni, the first produced in the country, is released. [ADD}

West Germany

29/12 -

The last 13 episodes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 26-episode Berlin Alexanderplatz are broadcast on German television.   Gunter Lamprecht, Barbara Sukowa and Hanna Schygulla star. [ADD}

Hong Kong

– Tsui Hark’s Dangerous Encounters – First Kind is banned for its scenes reminiscent of the 1967 riots.   The film is eventually released after re-shooting and re-editing. [ADD}

India

18/4 -

The FFC and Indian Motion Picture Export Corporation merge to form the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). [ADD}

24/7 -

Bengali actor Uttam Kumar, veteran of more than 120 films, dies of a heart attack in Kolkata at the age of 53. [ADD}

– K. S. Karanth’s Report of the Working Group on National Film Policy is ignored by the government. [ADD}

– Satyajit Ray declines an offer to head the newly-formed Forum for Better Cinema begun by independent film-makers. [ADD}

– Film lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi dies. [ADD}

Iraq

7/2 -

The Iraqi government creates the Babylone production company by merging private and public sectors of the industry. [ADD}

Other Key Films of 1980

Angola

No caminho das estrelas (Antonio Ole) [ADD}

Armenia

Ktor me yerkinq (A Piece of Sky) (Henrik Malyan) [ADD}

Yot sarits ayn koghm (There, Beyond the Seven Mountains) (Arnold Agababov) [ADD}

Australia

Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford) [ADD}

The Club (Bruce Beresford) [ADD}

Manganinnie (John Honey) [ADD}

Stir (Stephen Wallace) [ADD}

Bangladesh

Emiler Goenda Bahini (Emil and his Team) (Badal Rahman) [ADD}

Ghuddi (The Kite) (Salahuddin Zaki) [ADD}

Sakhi Tumi Kar (Abdullah Al Mamun) [ADD}

Botswana

The Gods Must be Crazy (Jamie Uys) [ADD}

N!ai, the Story of a K!ung Woman (John Marshall, Adrienne Miesmer) [ADD}

Cameroon

Notre Fille (Daniel Kamwa) [ADD}

China

Ba Shan Ye Yu (Evening Rain) (Yigong Wu) [ADD}

Tian yun shan chuan qi (Legend of Tianyun Mountain) (Jin Xie) [ADD}

Congo

The Chapel (Jean-Michel Tchissoukou) [ADD}

East Germany

Solo Sunny (Konrad Wolf) [ADD}

El Salvador

Morazán (Guillermo Escalon) [ADD}

Finland

The Raven’s Dance (Marku Lehmuskallio) [ADD}

Georgia

Begurebis Gadaprena (Flight of Sparrows) (Temur Babliani) [ADD}

West Germany

Der Kandidat (Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlondorff, Stefan Aust, Alexander von Eschwege) [ADD}

Palermo oder Wolfsburg (Werner Schroeter) [ADD}

Greece

Alexander the Great (Theo Angelopoulos) [ADD}

Special Request (Pavlos Tassios) [ADD}

Hong Kong

Rising Son (Edwin Kong) [ADD}

Young Master (Jackie Chan) [ADD}

Hungary

Confidence (Istvan Szabo) [ADD}

Strategem (Istvan Darday) [ADD}

Sunday Daughters (Janos Rosza) [ADD}

India

The Bogeyman (Govindan Aravindan) [ADD}

Cry of the Wounded (Govind Nihalani) [ADD}

A Folk Tale (Ketan Mehta) [ADD}

In Search of Famine (Mrinal Sen) [ADD}

The Kingdom of Diamonds (Satyajit Ray) [ADD}

Indonesia

Rembulan dan Matahari (The Moon and the Sun) (Slamet Rahardjo) [ADD}

Israel

Hide and Seek (Dan Wollman) [ADD}

The History of Cinema: 1980