31st Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival 1981 took place from 13 to 24 February.

Competition

The following films were shown this year in the official competition:

International Jury

Jury President this year was the director Jutta Brückner. She stood in front of the following judges: Peter Bichsel ( Switzerland ), Denis Héroux (Canada), Astrid Henning -Jensen (Denmark ), Antonio Isasi (Spain ), Irina Petrovna Kuptschenko (USSR), Jerzy Plazewski (Poland ), Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol (Thailand ) and Italo Zingarelli (Italy).

Award winners

  • Golden Bear: Go, Tempo!
  • Silver Bears: Anatomy of a famine ( Special Jury Prize )
  • Barbara Grabowska in Fever ( Best Actress )
  • Anatoli Solonizyn in 26 days in the life of Dostoevsky and Jack Lemmon in A Summer in Manhattan ( Best Actor )
  • Markus Imhoof ( Outstanding Single Performance )

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This year, no FIPRESCI prize was awarded for a competition film.

  • FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): Dialogue with a Woman Departed by Leo Hurwitz and Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett
  • Inter Film Award - Otto Dibelius Price: Anatomy of a famine of Mrinal Sen
  • Inter Film Award - Otto Dibelius Price: Abdellatif Ben Ammar Aziza of
  • Inter Film Award - for his lifetime achievements: Manoel de Oliveira
  • Reader's Choice Award Berliner Morgenpost: The refusal by Claude Goretta

International Forum of New Cinema

Outstanding films in the Forum program this year were the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Stalker Save yourself if you can (life) by Jean -Luc Godard.

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  • Berlinale
  • Film 1981
  • Awards Ceremony 1981
1981 in film Aleksandr Zarkhi Dhritiman Chatterjee Smita Patil The Boat Is Full Tina Engel Curt Bois Kurt Gloor Bruno Ganz Agnieszka Holland Adam Ferency Hugo Claus Sally Kellerman John Huston Kay Pollak Bulgaria Carlos Saura Finland Sergio Citti Roberto Benigni Josef Bierbichler Bob Clark France Nathalie Baye Angela Winkler Charles Burnett (director) Stalker (1979 film)
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