Overture / Overture

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Movie
Original title Overture / Overture
Country of production Canada
original language English , Italian
Publishing year 1958
length 9:28 minutes
Rod
Director Gian Luigi Polidoro
production Thorold Dickinson
camera Gian Luigi Polidoro
occupation

Overture / Ouverture (partly Oeuverture ) is a Canadian documentary - short film directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro in 1958, that of Thorold Dickinson was produced. With this film about the United Nations , Dickinson was nominated for an Oscar in 1959 .

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UN General Assembly

Against the background of Beethoven's Egmont Overture , which the Vienna Philharmonic performed at a concert in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, the film describes the far-reaching activities of the United Nations in the struggle for peace in a world in which wars break out again and again, the serious ones and bring momentous destruction with them. The hope that the world could endure was nourished from the belief that war and hunger and the resulting devastation could be overcome, to which the peace-keeping operations of the United Nations could also contribute.

The film refers to the tenth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , which was proclaimed on December 10, 1948 in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and states in Article 1: "All people are born free and equal in dignity and rights."

Production notes, publication

The film was produced by Thorold Dickinson on behalf of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the United National Film Services and distributed by the NFB.

The film was presented on June 2, 1959 at the film festival in the Australian city of Adelaide .

Award

Nomination for Thorold Dickinson in the category “Best Documentary Short Film” .
However, the Oscar went to Ben Sharpsteen and the film Ama Girls .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 31st Academy Awards | 1959 see page oscars.org. (English).