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21st Berlin International Film Festival
1971 film festival in West Berlin, Germany
1971 film festival in West Berlin, Germany
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| location | West Berlin, Germany |
| founded | 1951 |
| awards | Golden Bear: |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | |
| date | 26 June – 6 July 1971 |
| website | Website |
| chronology | Berlin International Film Festival |
| preceded_by | 20th |
| followed_by | 22nd |
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The 21st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June to 6 July 1971. The Young Filmmakers Forum (in 1987 renamed International Forum for New Cinema) section was introduced at the festival.
The Golden Bear was awarded to The Garden of the Finzi-Continis directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
- Bjørn Rasmussen, Danish writer and film critic - Jury President
- Ida Ehre, West-German actress and director of the Hamburg Kammerspiele theatre
- Walter Albuquerque Mello, Brazilian co-founder of the Festival de Brasília
- Paul Claudon, French producer
- Kenneth Harper, British producer
- Mani Kaul, Indian filmmaker
- Charlotte Kerr, West-German actress and filmmaker
- Rex Reed, American film critic
- Giancarlo Zagni, Italian filmmaker
Official Sections
Main Competition
The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1501 1/2 | Paul B. Price | United States | |
| Ang.: Lone | Franz Ernst | Denmark | |
| Argentina, mayo de 1969: Los caminos de la liberación | Octavio Getino, Nemesio Juárez, Rodolfo Kuhn, Jorge Martín, Humberto Ríos, Eliseo Subiela and Pablo Szir | Argentina | |
| Bless the Beasts and Children | Stanley Kramer | United States | |
| Bloomfield | Richard Harris | United Kingdom, Israel | |
| Blushing Charlie | Lyckliga skitar | Vilgot Sjöman | Sweden |
| The Cat | Le Chat | Pierre Granier-Deferre | France, Italy |
| The Decameron | Il Decameron | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
| Desperate Characters | Frank D. Gilroy | United States | |
| Die Ordnung | Bohumil Stepan and Boris von Borresholm | West Germany | |
| Dulcima | Frank Nesbitt | United Kingdom | |
| The First Day | Die ersten Tage | Herbert Holba | Austria |
| Four Nights of a Dreamer | Quatre nuits d'un rêveur | Robert Bresson | France, Italy |
| *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* | *Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini* | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| He Who Loves in a Glass House | Wer im Glashaus liebt... der Graben | Michael Verhoeven | West Germany |
| How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman | Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil |
| In continuo | Vlatko Gilić | Yugoslavia | |
| Jaider, the Lonely Hunter | Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Volker Vogeler | West Germany |
| Long Live Death | Viva la muerte | Fernando Arrabal | France, Tunisia |
| Love Is War | Ragnar Lasse-Henriksen | Norway | |
| Ninì Tirabusciò: the woman who invented "the move" | Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa | Marcello Fondato | Italy, France |
| Red Wheat | Rdeče klasje | Živojin Pavlović | Yugoslavia |
| Rendezvous at Bray | Rendez-vous à Bray | André Delvaux | France, Belgium |
| To Love Again | 愛ふたたび | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| The Touch | Beröringen | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, United States |
| Whity | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
Young Filmmakers Forum
- The Murder of Fred Hampton, directed by Howard Alk (United States)
- Bananera libertad, directed by Peter von Gunten (Switzerland)
- La bandera que levantamos, directed by Mario Jacob and Eduardo Terra (Uruguay)
- La Bataille des dix millions, directed by Chris Marker and Valérie Mayoux (France, Cuba)
- The Ceremony, directed by Nagisa Ōshima (Japan)
- Chicago 70, directed by Kerry Feltham (United States, Canada)
- Geschichten vom Kübelkind, directed by Edgar Reitz and Ula Stöckl (West Germany)
- The Big Mess, directed by Alexander Kluge (West Germany)
- **, directed by (West Germany)
- James ou pas, directed by Michel Soutter (Switzerland)
- Leave Me Alone, directed by Gerhard Theuring (West Germany)
- La memoria di Kunz, directed by Ivo Barnabò Micheli (Italy)
- Monangambé, directed by Sarah Maldoror (Angola)
- It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, directed by Rosa von Praunheim (West Germany)
- No pincha!, directed by Tobias Engel (Burkina Faso, France)
- Olimpia agli amici, directed by Adriano Aprà (Italy)
- Ossessione, directed by Luchino Visconti (Italy)
- Ostia, directed by Sergio Citti (Italy)
- Ramparts of Clay, directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli (France, Algeria)
- The Reconstruction, directed by Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
- The Salamander, directed by Alain Tanner (Switzerland, France)
- Happiness, directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin (Soviet Union)
- A Sixth Part of the World, directed by Dziga Vertov (Soviet Union)
- Tropici, directed by Gianni Amico (Italy)
- Umano, non umano, directed by Mario Schifano (Italy)
- Voto + fusil, directed by Helvio Soto (Chile)
- Wechma, directed by Hamid Benani (Morocco)
- The Woman's Film, directed by Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith and Ellen Sorren (United States)
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism, directed by Dušan Makavejev (Yugoslavia, West Germany)
Official Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
- Golden Bear: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Vittorio De Sica
- Silver Bear for Best Actress:
- Simone Signoret for Le Chat
- Shirley MacLaine for Desperate Characters
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: Jean Gabin for Le Chat
- Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement:
- Ragnar Lasse-Henriksen for Love Is War
- Frank D. Gilroy for Desperate Characters
- Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize: The Decameron by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Special Recognition: Ang.: Lone by Franz Ernst
References
References
- "21st Berlin International Film Festival". berlinale.de.
- (8 February 2012). "Berlinale beginnings".
- "JURIES 1971". berlinale.de.
- "PRIZES & HONOURS 1971". berlinale.de.
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