1957 Movies

A man is strangled to death and then dumped in a car.

Adults must provide teenagers with guidance in social skills if they are to make a harmonious adjustment to social life. The mother and daughter in this film have far to go.

The events of the film took place during the Continuation War, and the film is a new, expanded version of Kurkvaara's 1955 film Onnen saari (The Island of Happiness). In the summer of 1956, Kurkvaara filmed a new frame story for the beginning of the film in La...

Motorcycles and their dangers.

Educational film giving historical context to the literary works of Walt Whitman.

Because of a cruel ringmaster, Jolly the Clown and Ellsworth Elephant are both fired from the circus. Jolly tries to help the pink pygmy elephant's act so that he can keep his job.

Kezban and Yusuf are a couple in the village who love each other. Kezban's stepmother is also in love with Yusuf. She slanders Kezban.

A film about photography as an artistic medium.

A Thai historical film based on the Haw Wars during the reign of King Rama V in 1885, when a group of Chinese Haw rebels rose against Siam and besieged a Thai military camp. The authorities launched a secret mission, sending Lieutenant Tem, a talented young of...

Two mischievous young children create havoc around the Christmas tree- opening all the presents, knocking over the tree and surprising their dad!

Armansyah Perkasa Alam, a rising movie and radio star, receives a lot of fan letters that he uses to indulge his playboy behaviour. His friend, Trisno, keeps cautioning him to no avail. Armansyah begins to juggle too many appointments with too many girls. Fina...

The Juggler of Our Lady is an animated film by Les Novros, produced by Cavalcade Pictures in 1957. The film was submitted as a possible nominee for the 1958 Oscars and was shown at the Stratford International Film Festival in 1960, but no copy of the film is k...

A fairy tale based on the stories about the troll Gilitrutt

This portrait of Antonín Martin Brousil, one of the founders of FAMU and long-serving rector of AMU, was made to mark his fiftieth birthday. The film has a celebratory tone, emphasised by lofty commentary: it presents Brousil as a “journalist, scholar, teacher...