page_title: Albert Kish
section_title: Synopses of Award Winning Films
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Kish / Life and career / Synopses of Award Winning Films
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Albert Kish
context_page_description: Albert Kish was a Hungarian-Canadian film-director and editor.
context_section_description: This is a Photograph, 1971
  "This short experimental film is composed of snapshot impressions of a European immigrant's first five years in Canada. With humour and discernment, they reveal his reactions to his adopted country, to the environment, and the Canadian manners and customs to which he attempts to adjust. At first everything seems strange—the red brick houses, the glass skyscrapers, cars everywhere, stores stuffed with consumer goods—but gradually our protagonist becomes accustomed to calling the place home. "
  Los Canadienses, 1975
  "This feature documentary profiles the brave Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. To save Spain's constitutionally elected government from the threat of a fascist dictatorship (which eventually prevailed), over 40,000 volunteers from around the world fought in Spain, and 1200 of those were the Canadians of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion. More than half of them never returned. This respectful, emotional and historically rich film is committed to the memory of those who truly believed in the cause of the Spanish Republic."
  Paper Wheat, 1979
  "This film, based on the play of the same name, portrays the harsh lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the co-op movement on the Prairies."
  Bread, 1984
  "Both a visual feast and a didactic tool; from the wheat fields to the mill, from the bakery to the kitchen table, Bread is a dynamic and mouth-watering documentary."
  The Age of Invention, 1984
  "A montage of archival film, photographs and sound which shows some of the technological advances made from the late nineteenth century until World War One."
  Notman's World, 1989,
  "This documentary short is a portrait of Canadian photographer William Notman. Photography was still in its infancy when he opened his first studio in Montreal in the late 1850s. He rapidly turned his art, and a budding technology, into a highly successful business. Within 5 years he was appointed Photographer to the Queen. Not content with doing mere portraiture, he saw photography as a means of documenting history. With the use of props in his studio, composite photographs, and calling on his background as a trained artist, Notman immortalized the people and places of Canada."
caption: Albert Kish, 1978
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