All Films

Farewell

1975 • 9 min • Germany

At Munich’s central station, after years spent working in factories in several German cities, a worker from Serbia boards a train and heads south, to Belgrade. The protagonist recollects his impressions of the cities and the state he worked in, speaks of new insights and habits he acquired and thus says goodbye to Germany: Auf Wiedersehen, Deutschland!

The Monument

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film is about the monument erected with the participation of M. Anikushin in honor of the heroic 900-day defense of Leningrad.

Watch the Birdie

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Dogfather orders Pugg to wipe out Charlie the Singer. However, Charlie drinks a potion that changes him into a hideous monster.

Semi-dokyumento: Zoku nyotai no shinpi

1975 • 60 min • Japan

Lucy Gets Lucky

1975 • 52 min • United States of America

Lucy pulls out all the stops in Las Vegas to see her favorite entertainer, Dean Martin. Lucy gets a job working at the MGM Grand casino and high-stakes hijinks follow.

Wider Step Maestro!

1975 • 22 min

One day in the life of doctor.

Vassilissa Mikulishna

1975 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Adaptation of the epic "Tale about the beautiful Vassilissa Mikulishna". As Vassilissa with her intelligence and cunning freed her husband from prison.

The Man And His Bird

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The film is about terrible life of a common man

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

1975 • 50 min • Germany

In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive.

All Day Long

1975 • 20 min • United States of America

A young orphaned boy comes to live with his aunt and discovers that his best friend is having an affair with her.

Ignjatovic vs. Goebbels

1975 • 45 min • Yugoslavia

The title protagonist is Aleksandar Ignjatovic, a modest young man who spoke against the occupiers during the German occupation in the Second World War. In addition to the acted part, it also contains documentary segments, i.e. contemporary interviews with his friends, acquaintances and relatives.

Espaço Sagrado

1975 • 17 min • Brazil

Short documentary film about the afrobrazilian religion Candomblé.

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

1975 • 59 min • United States of America

Thom Andersen's hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.

Manila... A Filipino Film

1975 • 23 min • Philippines

Making-of documentary about Lino Brocka's 1975 film "Manila in the Claws of Light," featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

Zindan

1975 • 59 min

Zindan (Prison) a 1974 action film directed by Remzi Jöntürk.

The Last of the Mohicans

1975 • 60 min • Australia

An animated adaptation of the classic story. A young scout is befriended by a tribe of Mohawks.

Homicidal

1975 • 15 min

An abusive father accidentally kills his small daughter and tries to cover up the crime. This sets the stage for a violent confrontation between the killer and his wife’s boyfriend.

Nobody's Children

1975 • 27 min

Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK.

Elton John: Live at Dodger Stadium

1975 • 47 min

Documentary originally from The Russell Harty Show chronicling Elton John’s iconic two-day concert at Dodger Stadium in 1975.

Tatlı Cadı'nın Maceraları

1975 • 59 min • Turkey

Feature-length remake of Bewitched (1964), which was very popular in Turkey.

Pebbles in the Flood

1975 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Musings on life and literature in this student drama made by the Cambridge Film Unit.

The Making of ‘Sebastiane’

1975 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Super 8 footage shot on location in Sardinia in 1975.

Vibration

1975 • 36 min • United Kingdom

Uses two young western people as the mediators between the new gestalt initiated by Jung, Reich and Frederick Perles, and the magnetic chain of a Sufic master, finding that the East and the West, the scientific and the mystical, begin to hold together in a truly organic way.

Waiting for Fidel

1975 • 57 min • Canada

This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island. (NFB)