About 43rd Locarno Film Festival
The 43rd Locarno Film Festival was held from 2 to 12 August 1990 in Locarno, Switzerland. The festival had 112,000 people attend, of which 70,000 people attended screenings at the Piazza grande, the open-air theater constructed in the town center. Wild at Heart directed by David Lynch drew a record crowd of 10,500 people. The festival hosted a section of Eastern European films banned by their governments the 1960s. Two banned films premiered for the first time at the festival, Born in '45 directed by Jürgen Böttcher and Egon Günther's Wenn Du Gross Bist, Lieber Adam (When You Are Grown Up, De.
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