21st Berlin International Film Festival
| Location | West Berlin, Germany |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1951 |
| Awards | Golden Bear: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis |
| Festival date | 26 June – 6 July 1971 |
| Website | Website |
The 21st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June to 6 July 1971.[1] The Young Filmmakers Forum (in 1987 renamed International Forum for New Cinema) section was introduced at the festival.[2]
The Golden Bear was awarded to The Garden of the Finzi-Continis directed by Vittorio De Sica.[3]
Jury
[edit]The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[4]
- Bjørn Rasmussen, Danish writer and film critic - Jury President
- Ida Ehre, West-German actress and director of the Hamburg Kammerspiele theatre
- Walter Albuquerque Mello, Brazilian co-founder of the Festival de Brasília
- Paul Claudon, French producer
- Kenneth Harper, British producer
- Mani Kaul, Indian filmmaker
- Charlotte Kerr, West-German actress and filmmaker
- Rex Reed, American film critic
- Giancarlo Zagni, Italian filmmaker
Official Sections
[edit]Main Competition
[edit]The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1501 1/2 | Paul B. Price | United States | |
| Ang.: Lone | Franz Ernst | Denmark | |
| Argentina, mayo de 1969: Los caminos de la liberación | Octavio Getino, Nemesio Juárez, Rodolfo Kuhn, Jorge Martín, Humberto Ríos, Eliseo Subiela and Pablo Szir | Argentina | |
| Bless the Beasts and Children | Stanley Kramer | United States | |
| Bloomfield | Richard Harris | United Kingdom, Israel | |
| Blushing Charlie | Lyckliga skitar | Vilgot Sjöman | Sweden |
| The Cat | Le Chat | Pierre Granier-Deferre | France, Italy |
| The Decameron | Il Decameron | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
| Desperate Characters | Frank D. Gilroy | United States | |
| Die Ordnung | Bohumil Stepan and Boris von Borresholm | West Germany | |
| Dulcima | Frank Nesbitt | United Kingdom | |
| The First Day | Die ersten Tage | Herbert Holba | Austria |
| Four Nights of a Dreamer | Quatre nuits d'un rêveur | Robert Bresson | France, Italy |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| He Who Loves in a Glass House | Wer im Glashaus liebt... der Graben | Michael Verhoeven | West Germany |
| How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman | Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil |
| In continuo | Vlatko Gilić | Yugoslavia | |
| Jaider, the Lonely Hunter | Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Volker Vogeler | West Germany |
| Long Live Death | Viva la muerte | Fernando Arrabal | France, Tunisia |
| Love Is War | Ragnar Lasse-Henriksen | Norway | |
| Ninì Tirabusciò: the woman who invented "the move" | Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa | Marcello Fondato | Italy, France |
| Red Wheat | Rdeče klasje | Živojin Pavlović | Yugoslavia |
| Rendezvous at Bray | Rendez-vous à Bray | André Delvaux | France, Belgium |
| To Love Again | 愛ふたたび | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| The Touch | Beröringen | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, United States |
| Whity | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany | |
Young Filmmakers Forum
[edit]- The Murder of Fred Hampton, directed by Howard Alk (United States)
- Bananera libertad, directed by Peter von Gunten (Switzerland)
- La bandera que levantamos, directed by Mario Jacob and Eduardo Terra (Uruguay)
- La Bataille des dix millions, directed by Chris Marker and Valérie Mayoux (France, Cuba)
- The Ceremony, directed by Nagisa Ōshima (Japan)
- Chicago 70, directed by Kerry Feltham (United States, Canada)
- Geschichten vom Kübelkind, directed by Edgar Reitz and Ula Stöckl (West Germany)
- Der große Verhau, directed by Alexander Kluge (West Germany)
- Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich, directed by Uwe Brandner (West Germany)
- James ou pas, directed by Michel Soutter (Switzerland)
- Leave Me Alone, directed by Gerhard Theuring (West Germany)
- La memoria di Kunz, directed by Ivo Barnabò Micheli (Italy)
- Monangambé, directed by Sarah Maldoror (Angola)
- It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, directed by Rosa von Praunheim (West Germany)
- No pincha!, directed by Tobias Engel (Burkina Faso, France)
- Olimpia agli amici, directed by Adriano Aprà (Italy)
- Ossessione, directed by Luchino Visconti (Italy)
- Ostia, directed by Sergio Citti (Italy)
- Ramparts of Clay, directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli (France, Algeria)
- The Reconstruction, directed by Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
- The Salamander, directed by Alain Tanner (Switzerland, France)
- Happiness, directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin (Soviet Union)
- A Sixth Part of the World, directed by Dziga Vertov (Soviet Union)
- Tropici, directed by Gianni Amico (Italy)
- Umano, non umano, directed by Mario Schifano (Italy)
- Voto + fusil, directed by Helvio Soto (Chile)
- Wechma, directed by Hamid Benani (Morocco)
- The Woman's Film, directed by Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith and Ellen Sorren (United States)
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism, directed by Dušan Makavejev (Yugoslavia, West Germany)
Official Awards
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The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:[3]
- Golden Bear: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Vittorio De Sica
- Silver Bear for Best Actress:
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: Jean Gabin for Le Chat
- Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement:
- Ragnar Lasse-Henriksen for Love Is War
- Frank D. Gilroy for Desperate Characters
- Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize: The Decameron by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Special Recognition: Ang.: Lone by Franz Ernst
References
[edit]- ^ "21st Berlin International Film Festival". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 22 March 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ "Berlinale beginnings". 8 February 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ a b "PRIZES & HONOURS 1971". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ "JURIES 1971". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.