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Azerbaijan |
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– The Azerbaijan Film Fund and Museum is established. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Kinepolis Group opens the Metropolis in Antwerp, the largest multiplex in the world with 24 screens. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Czech Republic |
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– New legislature rescinds the state monopoly on production and distribution. Any films produced without state funding between 1990 and 1993 were technically illegal. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hong Kong |
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Banned in its native China, Kaige Chen's Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine), is released in Hong Kong. Fengyi Zhang and Leslie Cheung star as Dieyi Cheng and Xialou Duan, two opera stars whose lives are inextricably linked. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Film star Sanjay Dutt is arrested for illegal possession of weapons. His arrest causes a crisis in the Bombay film industry as production of the 12 films he is working on is suspended. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy |
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Ricky Tognazzi’s political thriller La Scorta is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue share the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Federico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 following a stroke in August. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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Joey del Rosario’s Adan Ronquillo: Tubong Cavite… laking Tondo, the first film produced by Star Cinema Productions, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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South Africa |
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– The Film and Broadcasting Steering Committee is created. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sudan |
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– The Minister of Culture and Information suspends the Sudan Cinema Corporation, which distributes films in the country. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Taiwan |
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– Ang Lee’s second film, Hsi yen (The Wedding Banquet) is released. A comedy about a marriage of convenience between a gay landlord and his female tenant, it is the most financially profitable film (in terms of cost-to-return) of 1993. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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– The Cinema Writers’ Foundation (SIYAP), which was closed down following the coup of 12th September 1980, is re-established. [MORE] [ADD] |
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