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Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.Read More »
1961-1970
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Veljko Bulajic – Uzavreli grad AKA Boom Town (1961)
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Jonas Mekas – Guns of the Trees (1961)
1961-1970DramaExperimentalJonas MekasUSAQuote:
Four young people are trying to understand why their friend, a young woman, committed a suicide. A film made up of disconnected scenes weaving between past and present. The title of the film comes from a poem by Stuart Perkoff which tells that some young people felt (around 1960) that everything is against them, so much that even the trees in the parks and streets seemed to them like guns pointing at their very existence.
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Lung Chien – Wu lin long hu dou AKA The Bravest Revenge (1970)
1961-1970ActionLung ChienTaiwanFive good fighters (Polly, Tien Peng, Man Chung San, Sit Hon, and another guy) fight countless sword battles against evil Yee Yuen and his minions.Read More »
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Igor Kolovsky – Khatyn, 5km (1968)
Documentary1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtIgor KolovskyUSSRQuote:
A documentary about the Khatyn massacre.
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Another example of Adamovich’s struggle against official war memory is a documentary film for which he co-authored the script: Khatyn’, 5km (dir. by 1. Ko-lovskii, Belarusfilm, 1968) was never publicly screened in the USSR because its treatment of the Khatyn theme was considered too negative by state censorship.Read More » -
Aleksandr Askoldov – Komissar AKA The Commissar (1967)
1961-1970Aleksandr AskoldovArthouseDramaUSSRBanned for over 20 years by the Russian authorities for its controversial stance on anti-Semitism and women’s rights, THE COMMISSAR was finally screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 1988, where it won the Silver Bear and met with international acclaim.Read More »
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Christian Doermer – Granstein (1965)
1961-1970Christian DoermerDocumentaryGermanyShort FilmBetween Dorothy Lange and Walker Evans, a realistic and sensitive snapshot of the 1965 rural world in the South of West Germany.Read More »
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Koji Wakamatsu – Shinjuku Mad (1970)
1961-1970ArthouseAsianJapanKoji WakamatsuSynopsis
Shinjuku Mad is about a desperate father’s search for the killer of his son. The father has rushed from the countryside to comb the seamy, filthy gutters and alleys of Tokyo. He meets some no-good, pot-smoking, guitar-playing, orgy-having hippies who knew his son but just won’t cooperate. Eventually, he discovers that “Shinjuku Mad” killed his son for the sake of some social revolution. The father tracks down the man and his group — if he can’t get a satisfactory answer as to why his son was killed, he wants to at least understand the “revolution” that claimed his son’s life.Read More » -
Julien Duvivier – Chair de poule AKA Highway Pick-Up (1963)
1961-1970Film NoirFranceJulien DuvivierThrillerSynopsis:
“A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl – what could go wrong? Almost everything.”
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Jean Boyer – Relaxe-toi cherie AKA Relax Yourself Darling (1964)
1961-1970ComedyFranceJean BoyerFrançois and Hélène Faustin have been happily married for 12 years. One day, Hélène takes a sudden interest in psychoanalysis and she becomes persuaded that her husband’s apparent fidelity is a subconscious attempt to compensate for a terrible personal drama in his past. Determined to cure François of his deep-seated and potentially dangerous neuroses, Hélène decides to manoeuvre him into having an affair with his secretary.Read More »