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Cinema of Non-Hollywood
Europe:
Federico Fellini- Director (1920-1993)

Italian film director Federico Fellini was one of the most celebrated and distinctive filmmakers
of the period after World War II.

La Dolce Vita: a 1960 Italian drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film
follows Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over
seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for
love and happiness. La Dolce Vita won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 Cannes Film
Festival and the Oscar for Best Costumes. The film was a massive box office hit in Europe with
13,617,148 admissions in Italy and 2,956,094 admissions in France.
Ingmar Bergman- Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman is widely regarded as one of the
greatest directors in the history of motion pictures. His works are marked by intense characters,
as well as intellectual and symbolic content.

Summer with Monika: a 1953 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman, based on Per Anders
Fogelström's 1951 novel of the same title. It was controversial abroad at the time of its first
release for its frank depiction of nudity and, along with the film One Summer of Happiness from
the year before, directed by Arne Mattsson, it helped to create the reputation of Sweden as a
sexually liberated country.
Asia:
Akira Kurosawa- Filmmaker, Director (1910-1998)

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa won international acclaim with such films as 'Rashomon'
(1950), 'Ikiru' (1952) and 'Ran' (1985).

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946): Inspired by several real-life incidents, No Regrets for Our
Youth is an intelligent and balanced drama about wavering ideologies and personal allegiances
set between 1933-46, the years of imperial Japan’s increasing militarisation through to its
wartime defeat.
Zhang Yimuo- Perhaps the most critically acclaimed filmmaker to emerge from mainland China
in modern times, Zhang Yimou (born 1950) came to critical attention in the 1990s for his tense
films that seemed indirectly to subvert the centralized power of China's Communist government.

Ju Dou (1990): Zhang returned to the world cinema stage with 1990’s Ju Dou, which earned the
distinction of becoming the first Chinese release to earn a nomination for Best Foreign Language
Film at the Academy Awards. Reuniting with Gong Li, Zhang took viewers to rural China in the
early 1990s, where a traveling salesman (Li Baotian) returns to his uncle’s home and discovers
the older man — who has a reputation for beating his wives to death — has remarried. Naturally,
the pair fall in love, setting in motion a web of domestic intrigue that seems destined from the
outset to end in tragedy — and add up to what Chris Hicks of the Deseret News called “an
emotionally fulfilling and viscerally rewarding adult film.”