MIFF 1977

Erwin Rado
#26

Festival Program
53 features and 92 short films were screened from 3 June to 18 June
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Program in Focus
Films of note include Budapest Tales (Szabó), Coming of Age (Sohrab Shahid Saless), Cottage Near a Wood (Menzel), Coup de Grâce (Schlöndorff), Harvest: 3000 Years (Gerima), Jonas, Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Tanner), In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima), The Long Holidays of 1936 (Camino).

Featured Film 
Cantata of Chile (Humberto Solás)
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Featured Film
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima)
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