MIFF 1967

Erwin Rado
#16

Festival Program
39 feature films and 94 short films were screened from 2 June to 17 June
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Program in Focus
1967 marked the commencement of international guests and visitors of note attending the festival. Josef von Sternberg was in attendence and introduced his last film The Saga of Anatahan for the first time to an Australian audience. Major works programmed were Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson), Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski), The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó), Love 65 (Bo Wilderberg), The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (André Delvaux).  

Filmmaker in Focus
Jörn Donner and Josef von Sternberg. Donner and Sternberg were guests of the festival and retrospectives of both filmmakers' work was screened.
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Featured Film
A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch, 1966)
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