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38th Berlin International Film Festival
1988 film festival in West Berlin, Germany
1988 film festival in West Berlin, Germany
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 38th Berlin International Film Festival |
| image | 38th Berlin International Film Festival poster.jpg |
| caption | Festival poster |
| opening | Linie 1 |
| location | West Berlin, Germany |
| founded | 1951 |
| awards | Golden Bear: Red Sorghum |
| number | 447 films |
| date | 12 – 23 February 1988 |
| website | http://www.berlinale.de |
| chronology | Berlin International Film Festival |
| preceded_by | 37th |
| followed_by | 39th |
The 38th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 February 1988. The festival opened with musical film Linie 1 by Reinhard Hauff.
The Golden Bear was awarded to the Chinese film Red Sorghum directed by Zhang Yimou.
The retrospective was dedicated to colour films and it was titled The History of Colour Film. Originally West German actor Gert Fröbe was selected as Jury President but later he had to decline due to illness, after which Moritz de Hadeln appointed the Italian film critic Guglielmo Biraghi as the Jury President.
Juries
Main Competition
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
- Guglielmo Biraghi, Italian journalist and film critic - Jury President
- Ellen Burstyn, American actress
- Heiner Carow, East-German filmmaker
- Eberhard Junkersdorf, West-German producer
- Tom Luddy, American producer and co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival
- Heinz Rathsack, West-German film historian
- Daniel Schmid, Swiss filmmaker
- Andrei Smirnov, Soviet actor and filmmaker
- Tilda Swinton, British actress
- Anna-Lena Wibom, Swedish producer and actress
- Pavlos Zannas, Greek writer and film critic
Official Sections
Main Competition
The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Einer trage des anderen Last | Lothar Warneke | East Germany |
| Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | United States | |
| Commissar | Комиссар | Aleksandr Askoldov | Soviet Union |
| The Felons | Hudodelci | Franci Slak | Yugoslavia |
| Ground Zero | Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson | Australia | |
| Hunting Time | Av Zamanı | Erden Kıral | Turkey |
| Jarrapellejos | Antonio Giménez-Rico | Spain | |
| Kung-Fu Master | Agnès Varda | France | |
| Life Classes | William D. MacGillivray | Canada | |
| Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | United States | |
| The Mother of Kings | Matka Królów | Janusz Zaorski | Poland |
| Phera | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | India | |
| The Possessed | Les possédés | Andrzej Wajda | France |
| *Red Sorghum* | 紅高粱 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| Theophilos | Θεόφιλος | Lakis Papastathis | Greece |
| Verónico Cruz | La deuda interna | Miguel Pereira | Argentina, United Kingdom |
| Walker | Alex Cox | United States, Mexico, Spain | |
| Wohin? | Herbert Achternbusch | West Germany | |
| Yasemin | Hark Bohm | West Germany, Turkey |
Out of competition
- Něco z Alenky, directed by Jan Švankmajer (Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom)
- Больше света Bol'se sveta!, directed by Marina Babak (Soviet Union)
- Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, directed by Taylor Hackford (United States)
- Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough (United Kingdom)
- Empire of the Sun, director Steven Spielberg (United States)
- Linie 1, directed by Reinhard Hauff (West Germany)
- Little Dorrit, directed by Christine Edzard (UK)
- Nuts, directed by Martin Ritt (United States)
- Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation, directed by Godfrey Reggio (United States)
- September, directed by Woody Allen (United States)
- The Story of Asya Klyachina, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky (Soviet Union)
Retrospective
The following films were shown in the retrospective titled "The History of Colour Film":
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Colour Box | Len Lye | United Kingdom | ||
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Michael Curtiz | United States | ||
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Norman Taurog | |||
| A Matter of Life and Death | Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell | United Kingdom | ||
| Anticipation of the Night | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||
| A Star Is Born | William A. Wellman | |||
| The Band Concert | Wilfred Jackson | |||
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States | ||
| The Belle of New York | Charles Walters | United States | ||
| The Birth of The Robot | Len Lye | United Kingdom | ||
| Black Narcissus | Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell | United Kingdom | ||
| Blood and Sand | Rouben Mamoulian | United States | ||
| Brigadoon | Vincente Minnelli | |||
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Das Cabinett des Dr.Caligari | Robert Wiene | Germany | |
| Carmen Comes Home | カルメン故郷に帰る | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan | |
| Circles | Kreise | Oskar Fischinger | Germany | |
| Composition in Blue | Komposition in Blau | Oskar Fischinger | ||
| Concerning $1000 | (unknown) | United States | ||
| La Cucaracha | Lloyd Corrigan | |||
| Doctor X | Michael Curtiz | |||
| Duel In The Sun | King Vidor | |||
| English Harvest | Humphrey Jennings | United Kingdom | ||
| Fantasia | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield and Ben Sharpsteen | United States | ||
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Sam Wood | |||
| Four Around a Woman | Vier um die Frau | Fritz Lang | Germany | |
| The Garden of Allah | Richard Boleslawski | United States | ||
| Gate of Hell | 地獄門 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Japan | |
| Gloria! | Hollis Frampton | United States | ||
| Gold Diggers of Broadway | Roy Del Ruth | |||
| Gone To Earth | Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell | United Kingdom | ||
| Great Freedom No. 7 | Große Freiheit Nr. 7 | Helmut Käutner | Germany | |
| The Great Sacrifice | Opfergang | Veit Harlan | ||
| Gypsy Sweetheart | Ralph Staub | United States | ||
| House of Usher | Roger Corman | |||
| The Inhuman Woman | L'Inhumaine | Marcel L'Herbier | France | |
| Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | United States | ||
| King of Jazz | John Murray Anderson | |||
| Late Autumn | 秋日和 | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan | |
| Lola | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany | ||
| Made in U.S.A. | Jean-Luc Godard | France | ||
| Märkische Fahrt | Kurt Rupli | Germany | ||
| Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress | William Wyler | United States | ||
| Moby Dick | John Huston | |||
| Mode in Paris und Berlin vor dem 1. Weltkrieg | (unknown) | Germany | ||
| Moulin Rouge | John Huston | United Kingdom | ||
| Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | Germany | ||
| Muratti Marches On | Muratti greift ein | Oskar Fischinger | ||
| Mystery of the Wax Museum | Michael Curtiz | United States | ||
| The Nightingale | Соловей-Соловушко | Nikolai Ekk | Soviet Union | |
| One From The Heart | Francis Ford Coppola | United States | ||
| On Parade | George Pal | United Kingdom | ||
| The Passenger | Professione: reporter | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy, Spain, France | |
| The Phantom Carriage | Körkarlen | Victor Sjöström | Sweden | |
| Potsdam | Potsdam | (unknown) | Germany | |
| The Pretty Miller Girl | La Belle Meunière | Marcel Pagnol | France | |
| The Quiet Man | John Ford | United States | ||
| Ramona | Henry King | |||
| The Red Balloon | Le ballon rouge | Albert Lamorisse | France | |
| The Red Shoes | Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell | United Kingdom | ||
| The River | Le Fleuve | Jean Renoir | France, India, United States | |
| Senso | Luchino Visconti | Italy | ||
| Serene Velocity | Ernie Gehr | United States | ||
| She Wore A Yellow Ribbon | John Ford | |||
| Sons of Liberty | Michael Curtiz | |||
| The Sword of Monte Cristo | Maurice Geraghty | |||
| The Story of Little Mook: Tales from Europe | Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck | Wolfgang Staudte | East Germany | |
| Three Little Pigs | Burt Gillett | United States | ||
| The Toll of the Sea | Chester M. Franklin | |||
| The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine | Henry Hathaway | |||
| The Trouble with Harry | Alfred Hitchcock | |||
| The Tree of Wooden Clogs | L'albero d'egli zoccoli | Ermanno Olmi | Italy | |
| Unser Hindenburg | (unknown) | Germany | ||
| The Viking | Roy William Neill | United States | ||
| Way Down East | David Wark Griffith | |||
| Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Frank Tashlin | |||
| The Wrestler and the Clown | Борец и клоун | Boris Barnet and Konstantin Yudin | Soviet Union |
Official Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
- Golden Bear: Red Sorghum by Zhang Yimou
- Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: Comissar by Aleksandr Askoldov
- Silver Bear for Best Director: Norman Jewison for Moonstruck
- Silver Bear for Best Actress: Holly Hunter for Broadcast News
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: Manfred Möck and Jörg Pose for Bear Ye One Another's Burden
- Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement: Matka Królów by Janusz Zaorski
- Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Verónico Cruz by Miguel Pereira
Independent Awads
[[International Federation of Film Critics#FIPRESCI Award|FIPRESCI Award]]
- Comissar by Aleksandr Askoldov
References
References
- "38th Berlin International Film Festival". berlinale.de.
- "RETROSPECTIVE".
- "JURIES 1988". berlinale.de.
- "PROGRAMME 1988". berlinale.de.
- "RETROSPECTIVE".
- "RETROSPECTIVE 1988".
- "PRIZES & HONOURS 1988". berlinale.de.
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