All Films

L'Inconnu

1973 • 55 min • France

The descent into hell begins for Edouard, a disillusioned marginal, when he loses his job, and his wife leaves with his son. His meeting with a mysterious stranger, who claims to work for the secret services, leads him to commit the irreparable. Was it a trap or just a symptom of his madness? There is doubt...

Zeca, portret van een Vaqueiro

1973 • 19 min • Netherlands

The picture retraces the professional, social and family life of Zeca, a cow-boy from the northeast of Brazil. From the most perfect calm he can fly into a state of the wildest excitement. From his lazy hammock he leaps into the hard saddle, which carries him at breakneck speed along tortuous paths in search of his cattle.

Aquarium

1973 • 10 min • Bulgaria

An animated short film.

Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls

1973 • 31 min • United States of America

Looks at the musical extravaganzas which constitute the main bulk of commercial cinema in India; in particular at the career of Helen, the undisputed Queen of such sagas, having appeared in some five hundred since 1957. Excerpts from some of her films are interspersed with an interview with the star in her dressing room.

Ferien und das alte Haus

1973 • 37 min • Germany, East Germany

A black-and-white children’s film follows class 6b during their autumn holidays. After a fun test drive with a new electric locomotive, they help Master Sellm build his house. They plan to build a paddling pool but struggle to find pipes. Discovering pipes in an old house, they also find stolen motorcycles. With help from the People’s Police and the godparent brigade, they lay the pipes and learn about foreign property and reporting stolen goods.

Warm Bread

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

This story took place in a village during the war. A horse left by the passing troops rescued all the locals, because it could be used to grind grain and it and to do hard work. Even though it was injured, it helped people by all means. But one boy acted badly, offending the horse and destroying the established order. Will he be able to return everything and be forgiven?

Don't Be Like Brenda

1973 • 8 min • United Kingdom

The brutally entitled Don't Be Like Brenda (1973) is an eight-minute lecture to young women, telling them not to be sexually promiscuous like the film's hapless heroine – although heaven knows, the promiscuity hinted at here is tragically modest. Poor Brenda goes all the way with a boy who does not marry her. The film is stunningly without any useful educational content on contraception and makes it entirely clear that the woman, not the man, is to blame. The film even makes her poor unwanted child suffer from a heart defect, so that no one wants to adopt the poor little thing – just to hammer the point home. (from: http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2009/feb/11/sex-education-films)

Monty Python In The Netherlands

1973 • 5 min

Monty Python sketch created for Dutch television in 1973.

Subarashii matsu ojisan

1973 • 43 min • Japan

A human drama in which Hajime Hana plays an old-fashioned craftsman and conveys the richness of his heart. After losing his only son, Uncle Matsu, a craftsman, gathers neighborhood children and teaches them how to make crafts. What the boys learned from him who showed his living study himself.

Lemmings

1973 • 55 min • United States of America

Woodstock with a death wish.

On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians

1973 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The King, wanting for his daughter to be found and returned to his castle, hires Detective to carry out the task. He successfully kidnaps and returns Princess back to the kingdom, but Troubadour and his animal friends Bremen Town Musicians hurry to release her.

Splendid Isolation

1973 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Film is based on a strict social opposition between two ‘hotels’ in Zagreb (Esplanada and Shelter), which are only 100 meters away, but also on the relation of color and black and white and 16 mm and 35 mm film.

Marvellous Suit

1973 • 44 min • Soviet Union

About the students of the vocational technical school, who buy one suit together. The film assures us that man himself should be kind and innocent by nature, that no jewels and expensive clothes can ennoble the intolerant and indifferent.

Tall Tales in Faces

1973 • 3 min • Soviet Union

On reasons of the Russian humorous saying.

Kirkby - Portrait of a Town

1973 • 30 min

A 1973 Granada documentary by Ray Gosling about Kirkby, a town in Lancashire.

How the Cossacks Rescued Brides

1973 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The Cossacks save a group of Ukrainian maidens who are kidnapped by pirates while celebrating Ivana Kupala. En route they visit Ancient Greece, Egypt, and India.

Barbara ou ma plus belle histoire d'amour

1973 • 46 min

In the early 70s, Barbara discovered herself backstage on her French tour. The artist plays with intimacy and camera glances. Between concerts, she talks to herself and the men in her life.

Mau Mau

1973 • 51 min • United Kingdom

In October 1952 the British government declared a State of Emergency in Kenya. Its object: the defeat of "Mau Mau." In the war that followed, fewer than 40 of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers were killed while more than 15,000 Africans lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands more were arrested and subjected to a humiliating and often brutal process of "rehabilitation." But what was Mau Mau? A movement based, according to the British Colonial Secretary, on a "perverted nationalism and a sort of nostalgia for barbarism"? Or the Land Freedom Army, an organized political and military response to repression and armed aggression? Using newsreel and previously inaccessible archive footage, and drawing on interviews with participants on both sides, Mau Mau examines the myth and the reality of Africa's first modern guerrilla war.

6shortfilms

1973 • 6 min

Short experimental animation by James Gore

Matrix

1973 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Abstract art film made for gallery exhibition.

The Order

1973 • 44 min • France

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of his life to the camera after having been excluded from his community to spend years of his life on the island with his fellow sufferers. Themes addressed include love, community, companionship and death and the importance of these values to all people whatever their state of health.

Gymnastics Lesson

1973 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film about the honored coach of the RSFSR Vitaly Belyaev.

Optimist and Pessimist

1973 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

A pessimistic film goer complains to his optimistic counterpart about the state of cinema, and the world at large.

Lion and Cat

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fable written by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, animation tells a story of a cat and its student lion and why the cat did not teach lion how to climb .