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30th Venice International Film Festival
The 30th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 23 August to 5 September 1969. There was no jury because from 1969 to 1979 the festival was not competitive. Films premiered * ''Fellini Satyricon'' by Federico Fellini (Italy) * ''La primera carga al machete'' by Manuel Octavio Gómez (Cuba) * ''Zaseda'' by Zivojin Pavlovic (Yugoslavia) * ''Blood of the Condor'' by Jorge Sanjinés (Bolivia) * ''Čest a sláva'' by Hynek Bočan (Czechoslovakia) * ''Cardillac'' by Edgar Reitz (West Germany) Awards *Pasinetti Award **Best Foreign Film - ''Cest a sláva'' (Hynek Bocan) **Best Italian Film - ''Fellini Satyricon'' (Federico Fellini) *CIDALC Award **''Zaseda'' ( Zivojin Pavlovic) *Golden Rudder **''Blood of the Condor'' (Jorge Sanjinés) *Luis Buñuel Award **'La primera carga al machete'' (Manuel Octavio Gómez) References External links * Venice Film Festival 1969 Awardson IMDb {{Venice Film Festival Venice International Film Festival Venice International Film Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Sanjinés
Jorge Sanjinés (born 31 July 1936 in La Paz, Bolivia) is a Bolivian film director and screenwriter. He founded the production group ''Grupo Ukamau''. He won the ALBA Prize for Arts in 2009. Film career Jorge Sanjinés brings highly political films of a revolutionary aesthetic to peasant and working-class audiences in the Andean highlands. The films that characterized the 'New Latin American Cinema' or Third Cinema provided an alternative to First (Capitalist) Cinema, making the social ''collective'' act as the protagonists of these films rather than an ''individual'' hero. The 1969 film '' Blood of the Condor'' (''Yawar Mallku'') by Sanjinés reveals the story of the undisclosed sterilization of Andean Indian women by a "Progress Corps" (standing in for the American Peace Corps) clinic. This film is thought to have led to the expulsion of the Peace Corps from Bolivia in an act of anti-imperialist cultural nationalism by the indigenous people. After showings of ''Yawar Mallku' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s In Venice
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 In Italy
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ** Reveren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Film Festivals
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ** R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Reitz
Edgar Reitz (born 1 November 1932) is a German filmmaker and Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (State University of Design) in Karlsruhe. He is best-known for his internationally acclaimed '' Heimat film series'' (1984-2013). Early life and education Reitz was born in Morbach, Hunsrück. His father Robert was a watchmaker and his business in Morbach was later taken over by Reitz's brother Guido. Reitz's interest in acting and producing plays began in his school years in Simmern, where he was encouraged by his German teacher Karl Windhäuser. After taking his Abitur, he studied German studies, journalism, art history and theatre studies in Munich from 1952. His first experiences in film-making however were not theoretical; he worked as a camera, editing, and production assistant from 1953. His interests in the advancement of new developments in film went as far as he cooperated with Wolfgang Georgsdorf and his '' Osmodrama'' in 2016 which led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardillac (film)
''Cardillac'' is a 1969 West German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz, starring Hans-Christian Blech and Catana Cayetano. It tells the story of a goldsmith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers. The film is a modern adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella ''Mademoiselle de Scuderi''. (Composer Paul Hindemith also used the novella as the basis of his 1926 opera ''Cardillac''.) Cast * Hans Christian Blech as Cardillac * Catana Cayetano as Madelon * Rolf Becker as Olivier * Liane Hielscher as Liane S. * Werner Leschhorn as Albert von Boysen * Gunter Sachs as Kunstsammler Release The film premiered on 28 August 1969 at the 30th Venice International Film Festival The 30th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 23 August to 5 September 1969. There was no jury because from 1969 to 1979 the festival was not competitive. Films premiered * ''Fellini Satyricon'' by Federico Fellini (Italy) * '' .... It was released in West Germany on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hynek Bočan
Hynek Bočan (Born 29 April 1938) is a Czech film director and screenwriter. He started his studies at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague when he was 18 years old. He started as an assistant director on movies ''Ninety Degrees in the Shade'', ''Diamonds of the Night'' or '' Ikarie XB-1''. His first movie was an adaptation of Milan Kundera's story '' Nobody Gets the Last Laugh'' in 1965. His movie '' Pasťák'' (1968) was banned and only released in 1990 Selected filmography * ''Hatered'' (1960) - short film * '' Nobody Gets the Last Laugh'' (1965) - Won Grand Prix at International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg * ''Honour and Glory'' (1967) * '' Private Gale'' (1967) - Won Passinetti prize at Venice Film Festival * '' The Borstal'' (1968) - Released in 1990 * '' Záhada hlavolamu (1969) TV series * '' Svatební cesta do Jiljí'' (1983) * ''Give the Devil His Due ''Give the Devil His Due'' () is a 1985 Czech fairytale film directed by Hynek Boč ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Of The Condor
''Blood of the Condor'' ( qu, Yawar Mallku, es, Sangre de cóndor) is a 1969 Bolivian drama film co-written and directed by Jorge Sanjinés and starring Marcelino Yanahuaya. The film tells the story of an indigenous Bolivian community receiving medical care from the Peace Corps-like United States-backed agency ''Cuerpo del Progreso'' ("Progress Corps") which is secretly sterilising local women. The story, which was based on accounts by the indigenous people to the filmmaker, provoked an outrage in the public which led to a government investigation about the Peace Corps' actions in Bolivia, which ended in the expulsion of the agency from the country. Plot summary An indigenous Bolivian community receiving medical care from the Peace Corps-like American agency ''Cuerpo del Progreso'' ("Progress Corps") which is secretly sterilising local women. The Bolivians attack the foreigners, and the attackers are rounded up and shot by the authorities. The brother of the shot protagonist des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Octavio Gómez
Manuel Octavio Gómez (November 14, 1934 – January 2, 1988) was a prolific Cuban film director and writer. His 1971 film '' The Days of Water'' was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Prix FIPRESCI The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo .... Filmography * ''Historia de una batalla'' (1962) (Story of a Battle) * ''Cuentos del Alhambra'' (1963) * ''El encuentro'' (1964) * ''La salación'' (1966) * ''Tulipa'' (1967) * '' La primera carga al machete'' (1969) (The First Charge of the Machete) * ''Los días del agua'' (1971) (The Days of Water) * ''Ustedes tienen la palabra'' (1973) * ''La tierra y el cielo'' (1976) (The Earth and the Sky) * ''Una mujer, un hombre, una ciudad...'' (1978) (Woman, Man, City) * ''¡Patakín! quiere decir ¡ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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