1961 Movies

The film poetically depicts carefree scenes from the lives of children spending their summer holidays by the sea with their mother.

Experimental animated short by Cioni Carpi based on the Mayan pictorial tradition.

A woman's therapy session turns into a musical review of men's clothing.

Two soldiers, Tică and Grigore, return from the front on a two-day leave to their home village. The action begins in the spring of 1945. Grigore is unpleasantly surprised to find his name on the monument to fallen soldiers and his girlfriend Ana married to an...

Harry Hound is reading "Hot Dog," his favorite magazine, featuring "Bridgit Bardog." His owner gives him orders: "Go out and bring back a fox or out you go." Nearsighted Harry hires a guide to take him on a fox hunt, but the "guide" turns out to be fox who is...

With impressive shots, the film shows the situation at various sections of the Wall, the escape of a young border soldier, protest measures by West Berliners, the arrival of additional US troops on August 20, 1961. It observes the activities and propaganda in...

A documentary short.

This early travelogue film, made in a Kenyan train station, captures an impromptu musical performance. Some passengers eagerly join in while others sleep—blissfully unaware of the performance taking place around them.

A builders' trip to the virgin land.

The concept of a mathematical function is illustrated as used in science.

A short documentary about the city Tallinn.

Soundtrack: Carlos Chávez's XOCHIPILLI, AN IMAGINED AZTEC MUSIC and TOCCATA FOR PERCUSSION.

Documentary.

A rare British jazz documentary from 1961, the true story of a jazz band on the road in 1950s Britain, directed by Jack Gold.

A peculiar in-depth reflection on the concept of homeland reflecting the atmosphere of Basque farmhouses with the participation of emblematic figures in the Basque culture of the period, like the bertsolaris (improvisers of Basque verse) Valentin Enbeita and J...