Berlin International Film Festival 1990
The 1990 Berlin International Film Festival began on February 9 and ended on February 20, 1990 .
The Berlinale 1990 was dominated by the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Numerous international guests came to the festival not only to present films, but also to be photographed on the remains of the Wall. The festival also reacted to the events and showed seven previously unpublished forbidden GDR films in the forum. The oldest from 1965 by directors such as Jürgen Böttcher , Egon Günther , Gerhard Klein , Kurt Maetzig , Günter Stahnke , Frank Vogel and Herrmann Zschoche . In the competition, Frank Beyer's Trail of the Stones was shown as a special performance.
This year, in memory of Wolfgang Staudte, the " Wolfgang Staudte Prize " was awarded for the first time for a film by the International Forum of Young Films.
The festival opened with steel magnolias , which were shown out of competition in the competition.
competition
The following films were shown in the competition this year:
International jury
The president of the international jury was the German cameraman Michael Ballhaus . He presided over the following jury: Wadim Abdraschitow , Suzana Amaral , Steven Bach , Roberto Benigni , Lívia Gyarmathy , Margaret Ménégoz , Helke Misselwitz , Otto Sander , Stephen Silverman and Rita Tushingham .
Award winners
- Golden bear : music box and larks on a thread
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Silver bears :
- Special prize of the jury: The asthenic syndrome
- Best director: Michael Verhoeven for The Terrible Girl
- Best Actress: Jessica Tandy in Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur
- Best Actors: Morgan Freeman in Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur and Iain Glen in The Silent Scream
- Outstanding individual achievement: Xie Fei for directing Schwarzer Schnee
- Special artistic achievement: Heiner Carow for Coming Out
Further prices
- “ Berlinale Camera ”: Frank Beyer , Martin Landau , Karel Vachek and Bernhard Wicki
- Prize of the Children's Jury (Children's Film Festival): Kunst en Vliegwerk by Kaarst van der Meulen
- Teddy Award : Coming Out by Heiner Carow (feature film), Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs (documentary film)
- FIPRESCI Prize (competition): Alexander Rogoschkin's Guard
- FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): Near Death by Frederick Wiseman
- Interfilm Award (competition): The terrible girl by Michael Verhoeven
- Interfilm Award (Forum): The Match Factory Girl by Aki Kaurismäki
- Interfilm Award (Panorama): Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
- UNICEF Prize (Children's Film Festival): The fish from Kambuzia Partovi
- Alfred Bauer Prize : Alexander Rogoschkin's Guard
- Peace Film Prize of the Heinrich Böll Foundation : My War by Harriet Eder and Thomas Kufus
- Wolfgang Staudte Prize (Forum): Freedom is a paradise by Sergei Bodrow
- Prize of the readers' jury of the Berliner Morgenpost : The terrible girl by Michael Verhoeven
Honorary Golden Bear
The Honorary Golden Bear was awarded to Oliver Stone this year.
Sources and web links
- International Film Festival Berlin 1990 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 50 Years of the Berlinale - International Film Festival 1951–2000 by Wolfgang Jacobsen
- Berlinale annual archive