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Golden Bear
The Golden Bear (german: Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin, featured on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. History The winners of the first Berlin International Film Festival in 1951 were determined by a West German panel, with five winners of the Golden Bear, divided by categories and genres. Between 1952 and 1955, the winners of the Golden Bear were determined by the audience members. In 1956, the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films formally accredited the festival, and since then, the Golden Bear has been awarded by an international jury. The award The statuette shows a bear standing on its hind legs and is based on the 1932 design by German sculptor Renée Sintenis of Berlin's heraldic mascot that later became the symbol of the festival. It has been manufactured since either the first or third edition by art foundr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without Leaving An Address
''Without Leaving an Address'' (french: ...Sans laisser d'adresse) is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois. At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival it won the Golden Bear (Comedies) award. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Douy and Serge Piménoff. Plot Thérèse has a child but the father left her without leaving an address. She hires taxi driver Émile to find her lover in Paris. Cast * Bernard Blier as Émile Gauthier * Danièle Delorme as Thérèse Ravenaz * Pierre Trabaud as Gaston * Arlette Marchal as Madame Forestier * Pierre Mondy as Forestier's friend * Juliette Gréco as the singer * Paul Ville as Victor (the agitated driver) * Yvette Etiévant as Adrienne Gauthier (Émile's wife) * Sophie Leclair as Raymonde (Gaston's girl-friend) * Gérard Oury as a journalist * France Roche as Catherine * Julien Carette as the craftsman * Colette Régis as a difficult female customer * Sylvain as a difficult customer * Christian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invitation To The Dance (film)
''Invitation to the Dance'' is a 1956 dance anthology film consisting of three distinct stories, all starring and directed by Gene Kelly. It was the first film Kelly directed on his own, after co-directing three films with Stanley Donen. The film is unusual in that it has no spoken dialogue, with the characters performing their roles entirely through dance and mime. Kelly appears in all three stories, which feature leading dancers of the era including Tommy Rall, Igor Youskevitch, Tamara Toumanova and Carol Haney. The film's shooting was completed in 1954, but its release was delayed until 1956 because of doubts at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The movie performed poorly at the box office, and is generally regarded as an artistic as well as commercial failure. The film takes its name from a piano composition of the same name by Carl Maria von Weber, portions of which are played during the opening credits. Plot "Circus" The first segment, set to original music composed for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Berlin International Film Festival
The 6th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June to 3 July 1956. The FIAPF granted the festival the "A status" during this year, which was previously only reserved for Cannes and Venice. The awards for the first time, were given by an international jury. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' Invitation to the Dance'' directed by Gene Kelly. However, this decision by the jury was widely criticized as the fil was considered "too shallow" for a Golden Bear. The favourite among many critics was the Finnish entry '' Tuntematon sotilas'' by Edvin Laine, which was an anti-war film without any illusions based on a novel by Väinö Linna. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * Marcel Carné, director and screenwriter (France) - Jury President * Bill Luckwell, producer (United Kingdom) * Giuseppe Vittorio Sampieri, director and producer (Italy) * Kashiko Kawakita, special effects direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Ratten
' (''The Rats'') is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. It is an adaptation of the 1911 play '' The Rats'' by Gerhart Hauptmann, but transferred the story to the early 1950s, shortly after the Second World War. It tells the story of the destitute Polish woman Pauline, who sells her illegitimate baby for a few hundred Deutsche Mark to the childless Anna John. The film won the Golden Bear award. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Jürgen Kiebach and Rolf Zehetbauer Rolf Zehetbauer (13 February 1929 – 23 January 2022) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Zehetbauer won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''Cabaret''. He died on 23 January 2022, at .... Cast References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ratten, Die 1955 films 1955 drama films German drama films West German films 1950s German-language films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Berlin International Film Festival
The 5th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1955. This year's festival did not give any official jury prizes, instead awards were given by audience voting. This continued until the FIAPF granted Berlin "A-Status" in 1956. The Golden Bear was awarded to ''Die Ratten'' by audience vote. Films in competition The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award: Key : Awards The following prizes were awarded by audience votes: * Golden Bear: ''Die Ratten'' by Robert Siodmak * Silver Bear: '' Marcelino pan y Vino'' by Ladislao Vajda * Bronze Berlin Bear: ''Carmen Jones'' by Otto Preminger * Big Gold Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films): '' The Vanishing Prairie'' by James Algar * Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films): '' Continente perduto'' by Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser * Big Bronze Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films): '' Im Schatten des Karakorum'' by Eugen Schuhmacher * Small Gold Medal (Short Film): '' Zi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobson's Choice (1954 Film)
''Hobson's Choice'' is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean. It is based on the 1916 play of the same name by Harold Brighouse. It stars Charles Laughton in the role of Victorian bootmaker Henry Hobson, Brenda de Banzie as his eldest daughter and John Mills as a timid employee. The film also features Prunella Scales in one of her first cinema roles. ''Hobson's Choice'' won the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film 1954. Plot Henry Horatio Hobson is the autocratic proprietor of a moderately upmarket boot shop (boots, shoes and clogs) in 1880 Salford. A widower, Hobson is a notorious miser with three grown daughters: Maggie and her younger and less-dedicated sisters, Alice and Vicky. All three have kept house and worked in their father's shop for years without wages, and Alice and Vicky are eager to marry, and their intentions infect Maggie. Alice has been seeing Albert Prosser, a young up-and-coming solicitor, while Vicky prefers Freddy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Berlin International Film Festival
The 4th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18 to 29 June 1954. This year's festival did not give any official jury prizes, instead awards were given by audience voting. This continued until the FIAPF granted Berlin "A-Status" in 1956. David Lean won the Golden Bear by the audience voting for his film ''Hobson's Choice'' at the festival. Films in competition The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award: Key : Awards The following prizes were awarded by audience votes: * Golden Bear: ''Hobson's Choice'' by David Lean * Silver Bear: ''Pane, amore e fantasia'' by Luigi Comencini * Bronze Berlin Bear: '' Le défroqué'' by Léo Joannon * Big Gold Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films): ''The Living Desert'' by James Algar * Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films): '' Det stora äventyret'' by Arne Sucksdorff * Big Bronze Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films): by Paul Haesaerts References External links 4th Berlin Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wages Of Fear
''The Wages of Fear'' (french: Le Salaire de la peur) is a 1953 French thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, and based on the 1950 French novel ''Le Salaire de la peur'' (lit. "The Salary of Fear") by Georges Arnaud. When an oil well owned by an American company catches fire, the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames. The film brought Clouzot international fame—winning both the Golden Bear and the Palme d'Or at the 1953 Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, respectively—and enabled him to direct '' Les Diaboliques'' (1955). In France, it was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year with a total of nearly 7 million admissions. Plot Frenchmen Mario and Jo, German Bimba and Italian Luigi are stuck in the isolated town of Las Piedras. Surrounded by desert, the town is linked to the outside world only by an airstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 3rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18 to 28 June 1953. Description This year's festival did not give any official jury prizes; instead awards were given by audience voting. This continued until the FIAPF granted Berlin "A-Status" in 1956. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' Le Salaire de la peur'' by audience vote. It was at this edition that the first replica of the ''Bär'' first created by sculptor Renée Sintenis, produced by the Noack Foundry, was presented. The festival held a retrospective on silent films. Films in competition The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award: Key : Awards The following prizes were awarded by audience votes: * Golden Bear: '' Le Salaire de la peur'' by Henri-Georges Clouzot * Silver Bear: '' Magia verde'' by Gian Gaspare Napolitano * Bronze Berlin Bear: '' Sie fanden eine Heimat'' by Leopold Lindtberg Leopold Lindtberg (born in Vienna on 1 June 1902; died in Sils im Engadin/Segl on 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Summer Of Happiness
''One Summer of Happiness'' ( sv, Hon dansade en sommar - She danced for a summer) is a 1951 Swedish film by director Arne Mattsson, based on the 1949 novel ''Sommardansen'' (''The Summer Dance'') by Per Olof Ekström. It was the first Swedish film to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. Today, the film is mainly known for its nude scenes, which caused much controversy at the time and, together with Ingmar Bergman's ''Summer with Monika'' (1953), spread the image of Swedish "free love" around the world. Plot The film tells the story about the university student Göran who spends a summer on his uncle's farm, where he meets the young Kerstin. They instantly fall in love, but Kerstin is ruled by very strict relatives, so they must hide their love story from everyone, not the least from the extremely strict vicar. They experience an intense summer together, and Göran dreads the id ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Berlin International Film Festival
The 2nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 12 to 25 June 1952. The FIAPF prohibited the festival from awarding any official prizes by a jury (which only Cannes and Venice were qualified to do so), instead awards were given by audience voting. This was changed in 1956 when the FIAPF granted Berlin "A-Status" during that year. Golden Bear was awarded to Swedish film '' Hon dansade en sommar'' by audience vote. Orson Welles's '' Othello'' was banned from the festival due to his alleged anti-German remarks. The festival held a retrospective on silent films. Films in competition The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award: Key : Awards The following prizes were awarded by audience votes: * Golden Bear: '' Hon dansade en sommar'' by Arne Mattsson * Silver Bear: ''Fanfan la Tulipe'' by Christian-Jaque * Bronze Berlin Bear: ''Cry, the Beloved Country ''Cry, the Beloved Country'' is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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