28th Berlin International Film Festival

Film festival

28th Berlin International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmOpening Night
Closing filmClose Encounters of the Third Kind
LocationWest Berlin, Germany
Founded1951
AwardsGolden Bear:
Ascensor
What Max Said
Las truchas
Festival date22 February – 5 March 1978
WebsiteWebsite
Berlin International Film Festival chronology

The 28th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 February to 5 March 1978.[1] Director Wolf Donner successfully managed to shift the festival's date from June to February, a change which has remained ever since.[2] This was the first year the festival was held in February.[1] The festival opened with Opening Night by John Cassavetes and closed with Steven Spielberg's out of competition film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The jury awarded the Golden Bear to Spain for its contribution to the festival. The three Spanish films which were screened at the festival and won it were short film Ascensor directed by Tomás Muñoz and feature films What Max Said by Emilio Martínez Lázaro and Las truchas by José Luis García Sánchez.[3]

A new section for children was introduced at the festival.[4] The Part 2 of the retrospective dedicated to West German actress Marlene Dietrich was shown at the festival, as well as the retrospective called "Censorship – Banned German Films 1933-1945".[5]

Juries

Patricia Highsmith, Jury President

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[6]

Main Competition

Official Sections

Main Competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:[7]

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
Advantage Авантаж Georgi Djulgerov Bulgaria
A Night Full of Rain La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia Lina Wertmüller Italy, United States
Ascensor Tomás Muñoz Spain
The Brothers Lionheart Bröderna Lejonhjärta Olle Hellbom Sweden
The Chess Players Shatranj Ke Khilari Satyajit Ray India
Co jsme udělali slepicím Josef Hekrdle and Vladimír Jiránek Czechoslovakia
The Contraption James Dearden United Kingdom
Death of a President Śmierć prezydenta Jerzy Kawalerowicz Poland
The Dog Who Loved Trains Pas koji je voleo vozove Goran Paskaljević Yugoslavia
The Fall A Queda Ruy Guerra and Nelson Xavier Brazil
The Far Road 遠い一本の道 Sachiko Hidari Japan
Flaming Hearts Flammende Herzen Walter Bockmayer and Rolf Bührmann West Germany
Germany in Autumn Deutschland im Herbst Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert and Bernhard Sinkel West Germany
Jörg Ratgeb – Painter Jörg Ratgeb – Maler Bernhard Stephan East Germany
Lemon Popsicle אסקימו לימון Boaz Davidson Israel
Lone Wolf Бирю́к Roman Balayan Soviet Union
Moritz, Dear Moritz Moritz, lieber Moritz Hark Bohm West Germany
My Father's Happy Years Apám néhány boldog éve Sándor Simó Hungary
One Page of Love Une page d'amour Maurice Rabinowicz Belgium, France
Opening Night John Cassavetes United States
Outrageous! Richard Benner Canada
Paper Flowers Flores de papel Gabriel Retes Mexico
Rhinegold Rheingold Niklaus Schilling West Germany
The Serpent's Egg Ingmar Bergman United States, West Germany
The Teacher El brigadista Octavio Cortázar Cuba
Trout Las truchas José Luis García Sánchez Spain
Une vieille soupière Michel Longuet France
What Max Said La palabras de Max Emilio Martínez-Lázaro Spain

Out of competition

1978 Retrospective poster featuring Marlene Dietrich

Retrospective

The following films were shown in the retrospective dedicated to Marlene Dietrich (Part 2):

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
Angel Ernst Lubitsch United States
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler Louis Clyde Stoumen
Desire Frank Borzage
Destry Rides Again George Marshall
The Flame of New Orleans René Clair
The Garden of Allah Richard Boleslawski
Kismet William Dieterle
Leap Into Life Der Sprung ins Leben Johannes Guter Germany
The Woman One Longs For Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt Curtis Bernhardt
No Highway in the Sky Henry Koster United Kingdom
Rancho Notorious Fritz Lang United States
Touch of Evil Orson Welles

Official Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:[3]

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Award

References

  1. ^ a b "28th Berlin International Film Festival". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  2. ^ Langford, Michelle (2012). Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Vol. 9. Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA: Intellect. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-84150-465-0.
  3. ^ a b "PRIZES & HONOURS 1978". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Berlinale beginnings". 8 February 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  5. ^ "RETROSPECTIVE". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  6. ^ "JURIES 1978". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  7. ^ Blumenberg, Hans C. (10 March 1978). "Germany in Autumn". zeit.de. Retrieved 8 June 2014.

External links

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  • Berlin International Film Festival:1978 at Internet Movie Database
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