Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Directed by Mike Newell.

A behind the scenes look at the design of Cabaret (1972).

An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.

Never released 1972 film of the making of Harry Nilsson's record "Son of Schmilsson" in London.

Walter and Ada Bingley celebrate their first wedding anniversary, unaware that that friends and family are planning a surprise party. Based on the 1970-71 sitcom of the same name.

Short location-centric documentary.

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.

The sergeant-major entrusts an ordinary missile division to Dedov with a responsible task - making hay for a horse. So a young soldier arrives at the collective farm, where he finds himself in a purely female team, not knowing that he will meet the girl of his dreams here. Sparkling humor and soldier's ingenuity helps Dedov, not only to complete the task, but also to excel in ongoing army exercises ...

Gera, a successful Romani painter rejects his token status by dramatically burning his own artwork. He returns to his marginalized community intending to implement social reforms and improve their lives. However, his modern ideas are rejected and misunderstood by his own people.

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

After marrying Rajesh and Savitri must face their many differences, among which the most crucial is that while Rajesh is a devout Hindu and follower of Lord Krishna, Savitri does not believe in God.

The film unfolds on two parallel planes. Scenes depicting the tense, uneasy routine of the border where the young protagonist Ata serves are interwoven with the less dangerous, yet still emotionally charged episodes from the life of the beautiful young Leila, his fiancée, who remains faithful to him despite receiving a proposal from a very successful young graduate student.

A man can't account for his movements when a woman is discovered strangled.

After two months of a hard-fought strike, accompanied by a day-and-night occupation of the premises, Jeune Afrique's workers were the victims of a court order authorizing their CEO, Bechir Ben Yahmed, to have them removed by the police. If they resisted, they risked falling foul of the law against rioters. To avoid the African comrades being deported from France, the strikers decided to leave. But before leaving, they organized a demonstration of solidarity with hundreds of journalists from the traditional and revolutionary press.

Young New York City activists, led by street singer Freemont Zappata and his girl friend, Marian, hijack broadcasting equipment that enables them to interrupt network television. Delivering their own message on the air, the group promotes peace and ecological awareness while decrying war and consumerism. After one group member divulges their location to authorities, federal agents arrest Freemont, send him to trial and convict him. The group subsequently frees Freemont from a detention center, then continues their broadcasts, while Freemont rides his horse alone along a bridle path.

The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and herbs instead of prayers and comes into conflict with the medical establishment of the island. Leaving Kos, he goes to Athens, where he is called to face a plague for save the city.

Thiruneelakandar is 1972 Indian Tamil-language biographical film, directed by C P Jambulingam and produced by K. Selvaraj. The film script and lyrics were written by Kannadasan and Panchu Arunachalam. Music was by C. N. Pandurangan. It stars T. R. Mahalingam playing the title role of Tirunilakanta Nayanar, with Sowcar Janaki, R. S. Manohar, M. Bhanumathi and Gandhimathi in supporting roles. It was released on 3 June 1972.

Documentary film about the labor activity of residents of Chechen-Ingush ASSR

An unreleased movie by Shaw Brothers Studio. It was probably never finished.

A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. In another realm of the story, a man is given a hat by another man, who asks him to give his fiancé a gift. However, he mistakenly gives the gift to another girl entirely, and makes love to her.

hong kong film

The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.

A silent film shot in New York in 1972, including scenes in Hélio Oiticica’s apartment. Last film made in exile by Bressane, it mimics the experimental concept of "quasi-cinema" by Hélio Oiticica. It consists of a fragmentary experience of freedom, in super-8 and 16mm, in a code out of time, out of the square, while recreating (with different cameras) the wild and sensitive look that Oiticica dedicated to cinema. Its definitive 71-minute restored version was completed in the early 2000s.

In 1972 two music icons—the legendary blues guitarist, singer and composer B.B. King, and folk singer Joan Baez—teamed up for a performance for the inmates of Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York. The film was made with the help of inmates who had spent a year learning to use camera equipment.

Children's Film Foundation comedy.

A prison escape gone wrong. A man and a woman meet in an apocalyptic scenario, in the midst of an obscurantist wave of repression of consciences.

An episodic tragicomedy of a lawyer, his wife, the people of East Los Angeles, and a viola, all intermixed as the lawyer seeks refuge from the establishment's injustices and his own marital failure through music and nostalgia.

Joyce would appear to have everything to live for: two young children, an executive husband and a nice home, but...

Directed by B.S. Johnson.

Katia Karalis is a simple typist in a newspaper but wants to be a journalist. One day she learns from her director that Chris Back, a high profile dressmaker. However, in order to provide him with a quiet holiday, he has presented his double to the hotel, and Katia, accompanied by Gregoris, a photographer who is in love with her, watches him everywhere, falling from gaffe to gaffe. Ultimately, despite all the difficulties, they make the great journalistic success after they manage to get an interview with the real Chris Back, namely Christodoulos Baka.

In this Danish suspense film, the foibles of the psychological helping professions are wryly surveyed. A woman has murdered her husband. That's clear enough. Now the woman is in a psychiatric hospital because it seemed clear to the judges that she was not fully competent. Her doctor, who is helping her a great deal, has problems of his own. First, he is against the cookie-cutter treatment practices of his hospital, second, he is on shaky mental ground himself. Then he violates his therapeutic ethics by carrying on an affair with the woman he is treating.

In the late 19th century, Jesuíno Brilhante swears to avenge his cousin, the republican and abolitionist Botelho, who was killed by powerful landlords. Government troops and a rival family unite to hunt down Jesuíno, who has assembled his own band of armed men.

Set in Berlin in the eighties of the 19th century. The focus is on the upper-class family of Kommerzienrat Treibel and the family of Professor Schmidt, who live in modest circumstances. For the former, outward appearances, possessions and the resulting social standing have the importance that education and authenticity have for the latter. The friendly contact between them by no means goes so far that, from Jenny Treibel's point of view, an engagement between their children would not threaten the social order.

Barton's family is massacred by outlaws. Vowing revenge, he sets out to hunt down the killers. Along the way he meets a mysterious, flute-playing gunslinger who claims to know the identity of the killers and agrees to help bring them to justice. But he has a secret of his own.

We do not actually see Pierre Vallieres, we see only his lips, his teeth, as he talks in French. English subtitles translate what he says. He speaks slowly and clearly, and tells about the Quebec people.

After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and the Freikorps and Andreas needs to find a place for himself in the conflict for the future of Germany.

A debt-ridden martial artist is forced to work for a gangster, who then murders his family.

Zeynep is a singer in a bar. A factory owner who sees her perform asks her to sing at his company's anniversary party. Zeynep attends the party and meets a young man named Doğan in the elevator. Doğan mistakes Zeynep for the owner's daughter and introduces himself as an engineer. In reality, he is a car mechanic. Zeynep continues the charade, but the flowers Doğan sends to her end up in the hands of the factory owner, Hayrullah Bey. He also joins the game. Doğan and Zeynep's relationship progresses. They go to Uludağ together. Doğan's ex-girlfriend sees them and learns the truth.

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six soldiers, escapes from the Foreign Legion fortress. Their aim is to reach the Allies and fight against Nazism. The truck is destroyed by a German army plane, which is hit by enemy fire in its turn. One Czech soldier dies in the attack, the driver is badly wounded, and Navara has serious burns on his face. The group has very little water and must reach an oasis that is 60 km away.

Rana (Puri Banai) and her father (Ezzatullah Voshoq) meet Ali Surchi (Mohammad Ali Bandani). Jabbar (Gholamreza Sarkoob) is in love with Rana, but Rana marries Ali without her father's knowledge. Ali is taken out of town by Jabbar's friend (Jamshid Narsi) and Farangis (Farangis Forouhar) and is stabbed to death by Jabbar. When Rana's father finds out that his daughter is pregnant, he dies of a fit of rage. Rana pawns her father's inherited house to a broker (Mohsen Arasteh) and keeps Ali's car as a keepsake, And with the help of Sadeq (Seyed Ali Miri), she raises her son Ali (Mohammad Reza Fazeli). Years later, Jabbar spreads rumors that Ali is an illegitimate child; but Farangis reveals the matter of Ali's murder to her son. Farangis is killed by Jabbar, and after Ali kills Jabbar and his friend, he kidnaps his daughter Leila (Nazanin). Ali's mother chases them, and Ali falls under the wheels of a cart and is finally arrested by the police.

A couple of young men and women have lovemaking on their mind. They decide to try to make it at 25 spots within a week. Several motorcycles and mopeds are involved.

Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.

The film retraces the events of the Reggio Calabria revolt and reconstructs, with images of the protagonists and places, the atmosphere of those tragic days in the early 1970s.

Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels.

Two woman pursue an idyllic herb-farming life in the country, forming a bond that for Breeze, the younger woman, is romantically and sexually imbued.

Everyone has wondered what it would be like to dig right through to the other side of the Earth. This animated film takes the wonder a step further. Here the probe is accomplished with a machine as ingenious as any that have reached the moon. Dubbed 'Old Chucknose' and equipped with amazing gadgetry, it bores through every layer of the Earth's crust and centre. Perhaps it's not a blueprint of things to come, but it's plausible enough as observed in this cartoon.

Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After having managed to infiltrate the libertine circles of the city, the two take a compromising photo that will get them into trouble.

Three miners plan a weekend fishing.

About the workdays of a team of dockers.

Long-time cohabiting couple Petteri and Liisa wake up with a terrible hangover and realize to their horror that they got married the night before. Throughout the day, the couple argues and reminisces about their previous relationships, but by evening they are ready to reconcile.

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of OTHERS. This last is a process that requires a WITNESS; and what 'idea' may finally have inserted itself into the sensible world we can still scarcely guess, for the CAMERA would seem the perfect Eidetic Witness, staring with perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance." – Hollis Frampton

Der Graf von Luxemburg (The Count of Luxembourg) is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár to a German libretto by Alfred Willner, Robert Bodanzky, and Leo Stein. A Viennese take on bohemian life in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, the story revolves around an impoverished aristocrat and a glamorous opera singer who have entered into a sham marriage without ever seeing each other and later fall in love at first sight, unaware that they are already husband and wife.