12th Berlin International Film Festival
The International Film Festival took place in 1962 to 3 July 1962 by June 22.
The first Berlinale in a divided city. Shortly after the Berlinale 1961 established on 13 August 1961, the GDR, the Berlin Wall, which led to considerations call off the Berlinale 1962. The preparations were still on and on 22 June, Mayor Franz Amrehn on behalf of the Governing Mayor Willy Brandt the festival. However, the festival was then far less political than the real situation of the city. Critics complained about the quality of the films, the organizers of the missing money to organize a better festival. The cabaret Wolfgang Neuss provided the counter-event to the Berlinale in a movie theater at Kurfürstendamm and showed his film Comrade Munchausen. Neuss commented on the quality of the festival in 1962 as follows: " If you say to me but after that I would infiltrate the film festival. Well, I beg you, the level is so low, because you should never be more underneath that. "
However, salvation for the artistic quality of the Berlinale, the future was in sight. A sign came from the West German province: at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, signed on February 28, 1962 26 German auteur the Oberhausen Manifesto. The day is considered as the birth of the New German Cinema.
Competition
The following films were shown at this year's Official Competition:
International Jury
This year, the American director King Vidor was president the following jury: Dolores del Rio (Mexico ), Max Gammeter ( Switzerland ), Hideo Kikumori (Japan), André Michel ( France), Emeric Pressburger ( UK ), Jürgen Schildt (Sweden), Günther Stapenhorst ( Germany ) and Bruno E. Werner ( Germany ).
Award winners
- Golden Bear: A Kind of Bliss
- Silver Bears: Francesco Rosi ( Best Director )
- Rita Gam and Viveca Lindfors in No Exit ( Best Actress )
- James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation ( Best Actor )
- Pierre Brice in Los Atracadores ( Best Supporting Actor )
- Jon Young Sun in Until the last day (special price)
- Heinz Sielmann ( Best Documentary )
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- Youth Film Prize: the short film Zoo Bert Haanstra
- FIPRESCI Prize: also the short film Zoo Bert Haanstra
Comments
The hitherto almost unknown French actor Pierre Brice is discovered at the festival for the role of the Apache chief Winnetou from German producer Horst Wendlandt. The first film The Treasure of Silver dissolved after its premiere in Germany the highly successful Karl May movie shaft. The last film of the series will finally turned in 1968.
Sources and links
- 50 years Berlinale - International Film Festival from 1951 to 2000 by Wolfgang Jacobsen
- Berlinale Annual Archive
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