40th Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival 1990 began on February 9 and ended on 20 February 1990.

The Berlinale 1990 was marked by the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. Numerous international guests attending the festival not only to present films, but to be photographed on the remains. Also the festival responded to the events and in the forum of seven previously showed unpublished prohibited DDR movies. The oldest from 1965 by directors such as Jürgen Böttcher, Egon Günther, Gerhard Klein, Kurt Maetzig, Günter Stahnke, Frank Vogel and Herrmann Zschoche. In the competition was shown as a special performance of Frank Beyer's Traces of Stones.

The festival was opened with Steel Magnolias, which was shown out of competition.

Competition

In the competition, the following movies were this year to see:

International Jury

President of the international jury of the German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus. He stood in front of the following judges: Vadim Abdraschitow, Suzana Amaral, Steven Bach, Roberto Benigni, Gyarmathy, Margaret Menegoz, Helke Misselwitz, Otto Sander, Stephen Silverman and Rita Tushingham.

Award winners

• Golden Bear: Music Box and Larks on a String
• Silver Bears: Special Jury Prize: The asthenic syndrome
• Best Director: Michael Verhoeven for The Nasty Girl
• Best Actress: Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy and her chauffeur
• Best Actor: Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy and her chauffeur and Iain Glen in the silent scream
• Outstanding Single Performance: Xie Fei Black for the Director of Snow
• Special Artistic Achievement: Heiner Carow for Coming Out

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• "Berlinale Camera": Frank Beyer, Martin Landau, Karel Vachek and Bernhard Wicki
• Children's Jury Prize ( Children's Film Festival ): Kunst en Vliegwerk of Kaarst van der Meulen
• Teddy Award: Coming Out by Heiner Carow ( feature film), Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs (documentary)
• FIPRESCI Prize (Competition): The guard of Alexander Rogozhkin
• FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): Near Death of Frederick Wiseman
• Inter Film Award (Competition): The Nasty Girl by Michael Verhoeven
• Inter Film Award (Forum): The girl from the match factory of Aki Kaurismäki
• Inter Film Award (Panorama ): Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
• UNICEF Award ( children's film festival): The fish of Kambuzia Partovi
• Alfred Bauer Prize: The guard of Alexander Rogozhkin
• Peace Film Award at the Heinrich Böll Foundation: My War by Harriet Eder and Thomas Kufus
• Wolfgang Staudte Price (Forum): Freedom is a paradise by Sergei Bodrov
• Price of the Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury: The Nasty Girl by Michael Verhoeven

Honorary Golden Bear

The Honorary Golden Bear was awarded this year to Oliver Stone.

Sources and links

• 50 years Berlinale - International Film Festival from 1951 to 2000 by Wolfgang Jacobsen
• Berlinale Annual Archive

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• Awards Ceremony 1990
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