MIFF 1972

Erwin Rado
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Festival Program
40 feature films and 107 short films were screened from 2 June to 17 June
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Program in Focus
Highlights of the 1972 festival included Blanche (Borowczyk), During This Summer (Olmi), Family Life (Zanussi), Love (Makk), A Nest of Gentlefolk (Konchalovsky), Mon Oncle Antoine (Jutra), Spider's Strategy (Bertolucci), WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Makavejev) and Joe Hill (Wilderberg).

Filmmaker in Focus
Boro Draskovic was a guest of the festival. 
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Featured Film
Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1970)
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From the Festival Files

Making the Festival

The Melbourne Film Festival began as the idea of a few passionate individuals. A sub-committee, formed from delegates to the 1951 Australian Council of Film Societies film weekend, suggested that a small festival of films in the tourist town of Olinda should be held in 1952. The resulting festival was a testament to the do-it-yourself initiative of the Olinda festival committee. As some 800 festiv …

The Living Festival

What would a festival be without its audience? There wouldn’t be a festival at all! … People are the beating heart of MIFF. It was the coming together of some 800 people in Olinda in 1952 that gave birth to the Melbourne Film Festival. Since that unanticipated outpouring of community love for film, MIFF has become an annual gathering space for film enthusiasts and the cine-curious from Melbourne …