Berlin International Film Festival 1977
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.
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:
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
- Golden Bear : The Elevation
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Silver bears :
- The Devil Possibly (Special Jury Prize)
- Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (Best Director)
- Lily Tomlin in The Cat Knows the Killer (Best Actress)
- Fernando Fernán Gómez in The Hermit (Best Actor)
- A strange role
- The masons
Further prices
- FIPRESCI Prize (competition): The increase of Larisa Shepitko
- FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): Mababangong bangungot by Kidlat Tahimik
- FIPRESCI honorary award for his life's work: Yilmaz Güney
- Interfilm Award (Competition): The Devil Possibly by Robert Bresson
- Interfilm Award (Forum): Ceddo von Ousmane Sembène and I, Pierre Riviere, who I killed my mother, my sister and my brother by René Allio
- Interfilm Award - Otto Dibelius Prize: Between the Lines by Joan Micklin Silver
- Interfilm Award - Grand Prix: Padre Padrone - My father, my master from Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- Berliner Morgenpost reader award : Between the Lines by Joan Micklin Silver
literature
- Wolfgang Jacobsen : 50 Years of the Berlinale - International Film Festival 1951–2000
Web links
- International Film Festival Berlin 1977 in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Berlinale annual archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Year of the Devil . In: Die Zeit , No. 29/1977.