Berlin International Film Festival 1984
The 1984 Berlin International Film Festival began on February 17 and ended on February 28, 1984 .
The festival had invited the Soviet film Farewell to Matjora by Elem Klimov as the opening film this year , but the Soviet Film Association banned it from being shown abroad. The film was ultimately shown as a special screening at the 1987 Berlinale . The new opening film was the dance film Le Bal - The Dance Palace by Ettore Scola .
competition
This year the following films were shown in the competition:
International jury
The jury president this year was actress Liv Ullmann . The jury had the following additional members: Edward Bennett (Great Britain), Manuela Cernat-Gheorghiu (Bulgaria), Jules Dassin (France), Lana Gogoberidse (USSR), Tullio Kezich (Italy), Steffen Kuchenreuther (Germany), Jeanine Meerapfel (Germany) , Kevin Thomas (USA), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) and Adolphe Viezzi (France).
Award winners
- Golden Bear : Love Streams by John Cassavetes
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Silver bears :
- Dirty guerrilla warfare (special jury prize)
- Ettore Scola (best director)
- Inna Tschurikowa in front romance (best actress)
- Albert Finney in An Unequal Couple (best actor)
- Monica Vitti in Flirt (outstanding individual achievement)
- Rembetiko
- Tomorrow in Alabama
Further prices
- FIPRESCI Prize (competition): Love Streams by John Cassavetes and Dirty Little War by Héctor Olivera
- FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): The Furuyashiki Village by Shinsuke Ogawa
- Interfilm Award - Otto Dibelius Prize (competition): Man without a Memory by Kurt Gloor
- Interfilm Award - Otto Dibelius Prize (Forum): Bless Their Little Hearts by Billy Woodberry
- UNICEF Prize (Children's Film Festival): Pessi and Illusia by Heikki Partanen
- Prize of the Berliner Morgenpost readers' jury : Le Bal by Ettore Scola
Out of competition
Outside of the competition, the following films had their German premieres at this year's Berlinale:
- Marlene - Director: Maximilian Schell
- Star 80 - Directed by Bob Fosse
- Time of Tenderness - Director: James L. Brooks
- Memory of the Camps - Documentary about the German concentration camps
Sources and web links
- International Film Festival Berlin 1984 in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- 50 Years of the Berlinale - International Film Festival 1951–2000 by Wolfgang Jacobsen
- Berlinale annual archive