AFRICAN MOVIES — THE GLOBAL SCREEN

1975 · United States · 124 min

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes Amity Island, a police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the beast.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Jonathan Filley, Ted Grossman

1975 · Lebanon · 106 min

In the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, four young Lebanese navigate their existence along rapidly transforming political lines.

Director: Maroun Baghdadi

Cast: Ezzat El Alaily, Mireille Maalouf, Joseph Bou Nassar, Elie Adabachi, Philippe Akiki, Ahmed Al Zein

1975 · United Kingdom · 92 min

The Monty Python comedy clan skewers King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they quest far and wide for the Holy Grail.

Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Connie Booth, Carol Cleveland, Neil Innes

1975 · India · 134 min

Two close childhood friends take drastically different paths in life, but meet by chance years later and fall in love, unaware of their past bond.

Director: A. Salaam

Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Sulakshana Pandit, Mehmood, Sudhir, Anjana Mumtaz, Sajjan, M. Rajan, Mac Mohan, Amrish Puri, Ramesh Deo

1975 · India · 127 min

Jealous of the high regard in which his new wife holds their brother-in-law, a botany professor stages an elaborate prank that will even the score.

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Cast: Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Om Prakash, Asrani, David Abraham, Usha Kiran, Lily Chakravarty, Keshto Mukherjee

1975 · Poland · 96 min

A motivated teen strives to rise from dishwasher to waiter at a luxury hotel only to tread in the abusive tide of its workplace hierarchy.

Director: Janusz Majewski

Cast: Marek Kondrat, Roman Wilhelmi, Roman Skamene, Cestmir Randa, Michal Pawlicki, Martin Hron, Stanislawa Celinska, Joanna Kasperska, Jaroslava Schallerova

1975 · Hong Kong · 101 min

In Qing-dynasty China, the emperor commands that a weapon be invented to kill at a distance without a trace. Then he orders it used on its wielders.

Director: Meng Hua Ho

Cast: Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku, Hung Wei, Wu Chi Liu, Yang Chiang