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The History of Cinema: 1983

Australia

Aug -

To deter the prevalence of financial rather than cultural motivation for film investment, the government reduces the allowable tax deduction under 10BA from 150% to 130% with a corresponding 33% tax exemption on net returns from the investment. [MORE] [ADD]

– Fox sells its interest in Hoyts.   [MORE] [ADD]

– Rank sells its shares in Greater Union to its Australian partner, Amalgamated Holdings. [MORE] [ADD]

China

1/4 -

Zhang Yimou and others form the Youth Production Unit at the Guangxi film studio. [MORE] [ADD]

Denmark

– The creation of the Association of Danish Cinemas (DBF) organises Denmark’s cinemas into one single association for the first time in their history.   The association is later split into four sub-divisions following conflicts of interest between small, medium and large cinemas. [MORE] [ADD]

Finland

– The country’s first multiscreen cinema is opened.  [MORE] [ADD]

West Germany

1/3 -

The British film Ascendancy, starring Julie Covington and Ian Charleson, wins the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD]

Holland

24/3 -

Paul Verhoeven’s international art-house success, De vierde man (The Fourth Man), is released.   Jeroen Krabbe stars as a semi-alcoholic writer who becomes sexually involved with the girlfriend (Christine Halslag) of a stranger he encountered at a train station (Thom Hoffman) with whom he is obsessed. [MORE] [ADD]

India

11/4 -

Gandhi becomes the most popular foreign film at the box-office in Bombay and New Delhi, proving as popular as domestic films. [MORE] [ADD]

31/12 -

741 domestic films were produced in 1983 in 27 different languages. [MORE] [ADD]

– Mrinal Sen’s Kharij wins the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.  [MORE] [ADD]

– Bhanu Athaiya becomes the first Indian to win an Academy Award for costumes designed for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982).  [MORE] [ADD]

Italy

11/9 -

Jean-Luc Godard’s Prenom Carmen (First Name Carmen) wins the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD]

7/10 -

Federico Fellini's E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) is released. [MORE] [ADD]

Jordan

– The Jordanian Cinema Club is established. [MORE] [ADD]

Laos

– The docudrama Siengpeun Chak Thonghai (‘The Sound of Gunfire from the Plain of Jars’), is the country’s first feature film.   It is co-directed by Somchit Phonsena and Vietnamese filmmaker Phạm Ky Nam and features actors from the Central Spoken Drama Troupe. [MORE] [ADD]

Macedonia

30/6 -

The Museum of the Cinematheque, including a 100-seat cinema, opens. [MORE] [ADD]

Mexico

29/7 -

Avant-garde film director Luis Buñuel dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 83. [MORE] [ADD]

– The Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE) is established.  [MORE] [ADD]

Portugal

2/1 -

Paulo Rocha’s extravagant historical epic, A Ilha dos Amores, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

Spain

28/12 -

The Miro fund, which supplies subsidies for domestic production and distribution, comes into effect.   It is named after film director and minister Pilar Miro. [MORE] [ADD]

Taiwan

– Chen Kun-hou’s Growing Up wins the Golden Horse Best Film Award. [MORE] [ADD]

USSR

16/12 -

Filmmaker Grigori Aleksandrov, a former associate of Sergei Eisenstein, dies at the age of 80.   Aleksandrov co-directed classics such as Oktober (1928) and The General Line (1929). [MORE] [ADD]