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1987

Australia

– The country enjoys a massive boost to film production following the introduction of investor tax benefits, but production quickly outstrips customer demand. [MORE] [ADD]

Cape Verde

– Antonio Faria films Os Flagelados do Vento Leste on the islands. [MORE] [ADD]

Congo

– Mwenze Ngangura’s La Vie est Belle, the first Congolese movie, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

Denmark

15/12 -

Statistics show that a cinema closes in Denmark every two weeks. [MORE] [ADD]

26/12 -

Bille August’s Pelle erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror), starring Pelle Hvengaard and Max von Sydow, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

West Germany

29/10 -

After winning an award for Best Director at Cannes, Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire a fantasy about two angels who descend on modern-day Berlin, is released.  [MORE] [ADD]

12/11 -

Percy Adlon’s Bagdad Café is released.   Marianne Sagebrecht plays a Bavarian tourist abandoned in the Mojave desert.   Jack Palance and C. C. H. Pounder also star.  [MORE] [ADD]

India

13/10 -

Kishore Kumar, playback singer on over 500 films, dies in Mumbai at the age of 58. [MORE] [ADD]

25/12 -

60 people are crushed to death at the funeral of film star, politician and Chief Minister of the State of Tamil Nadu, M. G. Ramachandran (MGR), which is attended by three million people. [MORE] [ADD]

– The first edition of the quarterly journal Cinema in India is published by the NFDC. [MORE] [ADD]

– The NFDC reports that the number of film theatres in the country continues to grow, although many rural areas still rely on travelling bamboo cinemas which only operate in the dry season. [MORE] [ADD]

Italy

28/9 -

Federico Fellini’s Intervista, conceived as a tribute to the 50^th anniversary of the Cinecittà studios is released.   Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, who co-starred in La Dolce Vita, are re-united here. [MORE] [ADD]

South Korea

– Major US studios are allowed to distribute their films following pressure from the Motion Picture Exporters Association of America. [MORE] [ADD]

Lithuania

– Director Sharunas Bartas founds Kinema, the country’s first independent studio.  [MORE] [ADD]

Mauritius

– The Mauritius Film Development Corporation is established to boost the local film industry.  [MORE] [ADD]

Norway

15/5 -

The law on Film and Videograms is enacted by parliament.    [MORE] [ADD]

Poland

– Banned because of its political content, Kyzysztof Kieslowski’s Przypadek (Blind Chance) is released six years after it was made. [MORE] [ADD]

Spain

16/3 -

The first awards ceremony of Spain’s national film awards, los Premios Goya, is held at the Teatro Lope de Vega in Madrid. [MORE] [ADD] 

Taiwan

– 53 intellectuals and film-makers sign a public statement urging the government to provide more incentives for the film industry.   It is an act later perceived as a manifesto for the ‘new cinema.’ [MORE] [ADD]

Turkey

– The Professional Union of Cinema Production (SESAM) is established. [MORE] [ADD]

USSR

May -

Newly-elected officers at the Soviet Union of Film Makers demand a total re-organisation and the release of long-banned films. [MORE] [ADD]

Zimbabwe

– The Government withdraws from investment in film following its failure to realise a return on the US$5.5 million it invested in Richard Attenborough’s Cry Freedom. [MORE] [ADD]