Berlin International Film Festival 1977

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The 1977 Berlin International Film Festival took place from June 24th to July 5th, 1977. The 1977 Berlinale was the first Berlinale without the founding director Alfred Bauer , who had retired in 1976. Wolf Donner , a film journalist, succeeded him.

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The festival

Wolf Donner opened the film fair to the public in his first year and showed films in a newly created series entitled Information Show. There was also a retrospective by GDR director Konrad Wolf and a retrospective with films by Ula Stöckl . The Berlinale opened at the Zoo Palast with the American comedy Nickelodeon by Peter Bogdanovich . The main roles were played by Ryan O'Neal and Burt Reynolds .

The very popular retrospective was first taken over by the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation in 1977 . The first retrospective at the Kinemathek in 1977 was dedicated to Marlene Dietrich's films .

The world premiere of the documentary Hitler - A Career caused great excitement . The film by Joachim Fest and Christian Herrendoerfer was received and discussed extremely controversially. The world premiere took place as a special screening outside of the competition.

Hans-Christoph Blumenberg on July 8, 1977 in the time about the first festival of the new director Wolf Donner: Donner's summer festival, which also visually dominated the city of Berlin for two weeks, was a successful thing despite some dry spells, even if cinematic highlights (with very few exceptions) did not materialize. But the embarrassments with which the Cannes Festival shocked its visitors this year did not occur in Berlin. Even unsuccessful films such as the two Spanish competition entries were interesting enough, precisely because they failed, to be expected of an international audience.

competition

The following films were shown in competition at the 1977 Berlinale:

Movie title Director Country of production Actor (selection)
Ascent Larissa Schepitko Soviet Union
Bazaar of Miracles Nelson Pereira dos Santos Brazil
Between the lines Joan Micklin Silver United States John Heard , Lindsay Crouse , Jeff Goldblum
Cyclops Hristo Hristov Bulgaria
Don's party Bruce Beresford Australia
the recluse Juan Estelrich Spain , France Fernando Fernán Gómez
The capture of the citadel Bernhard Wicki Germany Ivan Desny , Dieter Kirchlechner
Grete Minde Heidi Genée Austria , Germany Katerina Jacob , Hannelore Elsner , Tilo Prückner
The cat knows the killer Robert Benton United States Art Carney , Lily Tomlin
Mom i'm alive Konrad Wolf GDR , Soviet Union Peter Prager , Uwe Zerbe , Eberhard Kirchberg
The man who loved women François Truffaut France Charles Denner , Brigitte Fossey
The masons Jorge Fons Mexico
A strange role Pál Sándor Hungary
Nickelodeon Peter Bogdanovich UK , USA Ryan O'Neal , Burt Reynolds , Tatum O'Neal
The fifth seal Zoltán Fábri Hungary
Black pile Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Spain Ángela Molina
Pigs with wings Paolo Pietrangeli Italy
A sentimental novel Igor Maslennikov Soviet Union
A day for my love Juraj heart Czechoslovakia Eva Sitta
Maybe the devil Robert Bresson France
The expulsion from paradise Niklaus Schilling Germany Herb Andress , Elke Haltaufderheide
Vdovstvo Karoline Zasler Matjaž Klopčič Yugoslavia

International jury

The jury president was the actress Senta Berger . She presided over the following jury: Ellen Burstyn (USA), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany), Derek Malcolm (Great Britain) Andrei Michalkow-Konschalowski (USSR), Basilio Martin Patino (Spain), Ousmane Sembène (Senegal), Humberto Solás (Cuba) and Hélene Vager (France).

Award winners

Further prices

literature

  • Wolfgang Jacobsen : 50 Years of the Berlinale - International Film Festival 1951–2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Year of the Devil . In: Die Zeit , No. 29/1977.