Berlin International Film Festival 1962

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The 1962 Berlin International Film Festival took place from June 22nd to July 3rd, 1962.

The first Berlinale in a divided city. Shortly after the Berlinale 1961 , the GDR erected the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 , which led to considerations to cancel the Berlinale for 1962. The preparations nevertheless continued and on June 22nd, Mayor Franz Amrehn opened the festival on behalf of Governing Mayor Willy Brandt . The festival was then far less political than the real situation in the city. The critics criticized the quality of the films, the organizers the lack of money to organize a better festival. The cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss delivered the counter-event to the Berlinale in a cinema on Kurfürstendamm and showed his film Comrade Münchhausen . Neuss commented on the quality of the 1962 festival as follows: “If I am told that I would infiltrate the film festival. Well, I ask you, the level is so low, you can't get under it. "

However, salvation for the artistic quality of the Berlinale of the future was in sight. A sign came from the West German provinces: at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival on February 28, 1962, 26 German auteur filmmakers signed the Oberhausen Manifesto . The day is considered to be the birth of the New German Cinema.

competition

The following films were shown in the official competition this year:

Movie title Director Country of production Actor (selection)
Los Atracadores Francisco Rovira Beleta Spain Pierre Brice
Until the last day Sang-ok Shin South Korea
Os Cafajestes Ruy Guerra Brazil
Duels Knud Leif Thomse Denmark
Galapagos - dream island in the Pacific Heinz Sielmann Germany documentary
Give me ten desperate people Pierre room Israel , France Pascale Audret
Hands John G. Contes Greece
The fall of the Kohayagawa family Yasujiro Ozu Japan Ganjirō Nakamura
Hum Dono Amarjeet India Dev Anand
There is a train every hour André Cavens Belgium
The corporal in the noose Jean Renoir France Jean-Pierre Cassel , Claude Brasseur
Love at twenty Shintarô Ishihara , Marcel Ophüls , Roberto Rossellini , François Truffaut , Andrzej Wajda ( episode film in five parts) France , Italy , Germany , Poland , Japan Jean-Pierre Léaud , Marie-France Pisier , Barbara Kwiatkowska , Zbigniew Cybulski , Vera Chekhowa
My thirteenth wife Fatin Abdel Wahab Egypt
Mitasareta seikatsu Susumu Hani Japan
Mr. Hobbs is on vacation Henry Koster United States James Stewart , Maureen O'Hara
No exit Tad Danielewski USA , Argentina Rita Gam , Viveca Lindfors
The nun and the sinner Daniel Tinayre Argentina , Mexico
Just a touch of bliss John Schlesinger Great Britain Alan Bates
Out of the Tiger's Mouth Tim Whelan Jr. United States
Pikku Pietarin piha Jack Witikka Finland
The doll Jacques Baratier Italy , France Zbigniew Cybulski
The Red Helmut Käutner Germany , Italy Ruth Leuwerik , Harry Meyen , Gert Fröbe
The beautiful Ippolita Giancarlo Zagni Italy , France Gina Lollobrigida , Milva
The steppe Alberto Lattuada Italy , France , Yugoslavia Charles Vanel
South storm Sofia Waldi Indonesia
El Tejedor de milagros Francisco del Villar Mexico
Tonny Nils R. Müller Norway Liv Ullmann
Who shot Salvatore G.? Francesco Rosi Italy
Like in a mirror Ingmar Bergman Sweden Harriet Andersson , Gunnar Björnstrand , Max von Sydow

International jury

This year the American director King Vidor was president of the following jury: Dolores del Río (Mexico), Max Gammeter (Switzerland), Hideo Kikumori (Japan), André Michel (France), Emeric Pressburger (Great Britain), Jürgen Schildt (Sweden), Günther Stapenhorst (Germany) and Bruno E. Werner (Germany).

Award winners

Further prices

Remarks

The until then almost unknown French actor Pierre Brice is discovered at the festival by German producer Horst Wendlandt for the role of Apache chief Winnetou . The first film, The Treasure in Silbersee , triggered the extremely successful wave of Karl May films after its premiere in Germany. The last film in the series was finally shot in 1968.

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