Berlin International Film Festival 1987
The 1987 Berlin International Film Festival took place from February 20 to March 3, 1987 .
The Berlinale was all about glasnost . The policy of Mikhail Gorbachev made it the movies that were previously deposited in the so-called poison cupboard and were not allowed to be shown in Berlin a first international forum found. Elem Klimov's farewell to Matjora was shown in a special performance. Gleb Panfilow's 1979 film The Theme even ran in the competition and eventually won the Golden Bear . So-called Soviet "safe films" were shown in all sections of the Berlinale.
competition
The following films took part in the 1987 Berlinale competition:
International jury
The jury's president this year was the Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer . Other jury members: Juliet Berto (France), Kathleen Carrol (USA), Callisto Cosulich (Italy), Viktor Djomin (USSR), Reinhard Hauff (Germany), Edmund Luft (Germany), Jiří Menzel (Czechoslovakia), Dan Pita ( Romania), Paul Schrader (USA) and Antonio Skármeta (Chile).
Award winners
- Golden Bear : The theme of Gleb Panfilow
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Silver bears :
- The Sea and Poison (Special Jury Prize)
- Oliver Stone (best director)
- Ana Beatriz Nogueira (best actress in Vera )
- Gian Maria Volonté (best actor in The Aldo Moro Affair )
- Márta Mészáros and Fernando Trueba (each outstanding individual achievement)
- God's forgotten children (special artistic achievement)
- Alfred Bauer Prize : The Night is Young - Director: Leos Carax
Further prices
- Children's Jury Prize (Children's Film Festival): Henry von François Labonté
- FIPRESCI Prize (competition): Tema by Gleb Panfilow
- FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): The Ballad of the Ax by Witold Leszczyński and The Lighted Lantern by Aghasi Ayvazyan
- Interfilm Award - Otto Dibelius Prize (competition): The subject of Gleb Panfilow
- Interfilm Award - Otto Dibelius Prize (Forum): The Ballad of the Ax by Witold Leszczyński
- UNICEF Prize (Children's Film Festival): Games for school-age children by Arvo Iho and Leida Laius
- Caligari Film Award (Forum): Forward, Army of God! by Kazuo Hara
- Heinrich Böll Foundation Peace Film Prize : Joe Polowsky - An American Dreamer by Wolfgang Pfeiffer
- Prize of the Berliner Morgenpost readers' jury : God's forgotten children by Randa Haines
Teddy Award
The " Teddy Award " was presented for the first time this year . The first winners were:
- best film: The Law of Desire (La ley del deseo) - Director: Pedro Almodóvar
- best short film: Five Ways to Kill Yourself and My New Friend - Director: Gus Van Sant
Web links
- International Film Festival Berlin 1987 in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- 50 Years of the Berlinale - International Film Festival 1951–2000 by Wolfgang Jacobsen
- Berlinale annual archive