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28th Berlin International Film Festival
The 28th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 February to 5 March 1978. Director Wolf Donner successfully managed to shift the festival's date from June to February, a change which has remained ever since. This was the first year the festival was held in February. The festival opened with '' Opening Night'' by John Cassavetes and closed with Steven Spielberg's out of competition film ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind''. The jury awarded the Golden Bear to Spain for its contribution to the festival. The three Spanish films which were screened at the festival and won it were short film '' Ascensor'' directed by Tomás Muñoz and feature films '' What Max Said'' by Emilio Martínez Lázaro and ''Las truchas'' by José Luis García Sánchez. A new section for children was introduced at the festival. The ''Part 2'' of the retrospective dedicated to West German actress Marlene Dietrich was shown at the festival, as well as the retrospective called "Censorship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opening Night (1977 Film)
''Opening Night'' is a 1977 American psychological drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes, and starring Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, and Cassavetes. Its plot follows a stage actress who, after witnessing the accidental death of a fan, struggles through a nervous breakdown while she prepares for an upcoming Broadway premiere. Though set in Connecticut and New York City, ''Opening Night'' was shot on location in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California, with the theatrical performance sequences taking place at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Plot In New Haven, Connecticut, Myrtle Gordon is a famous but troubled middle-aged actress performing out-of-town previews of a new play called ''The Second Woman'' before its Broadway run. While leaving the theatre after a performance, Myrtle signs autographs and encounters an obsessive teenaged fan, Nancy, who runs after Myrtle into the street and is struck by a car. Myrtle is unsettled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone ( ; ; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme Close-up, close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His films include the Dollars Trilogy of Westerns featuring Clint Eastwood: ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964), ''For a Few Dollars More'' (1965), and ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (1966); and the ''Once Upon a Time'' films: ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' (1968), ''Duck, You Sucker!'' (1971), and ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984). Early life Born on 3 January 1929 in Rome, Leone was the son of the cinema pioneer Vincenzo Leone (known as Roberto Roberti or Leone Roberto Roberti) and silent film actress Edvige Valcarenghi (known as Bice Waleran). His mother was of Milanese and remote Austrians, Austrian descent. During his schooldays, Leone was a classm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chess Players (film)
''Shatranj Ke Khilari'', also subtitled and later internationally released with the translated title ''The Chess Players'', is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Amjad Khan plays the role of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Awadh, and Richard Attenborough enacts the role of General James Outram. The main cast includes actors Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey as the chess players. It also has Shabana Azmi, Farooque Shaikh, Farida Jalal, David Abraham, and Tom Alter. It has Amitabh Bachchan as the narrator. It was India's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards, but did not receive a nomination. This is the only full-length Hindi feature film of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. He later made a short Hindi film for TV named '' Sadgati'', another adaptation of Munshi Premchand's short story. Plot Historical background The film is set in 1856 on the eve of the Indian Rebellio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olle Hellbom
Nils Olof "Olle" Hellbom (8 October 1925 – 5 June 1982) was a Swedish film director, film producer, producer, and screenwriter. He is most famous for directing films based on novels by Astrid Lindgren. His 1960 film ''The Children of Bullerbyn Village, Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. In 1978 at the 14th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Guldbagge Award for Best Director, Best Director for his film ''The Brothers Lionheart (film), The Brothers Lionheart''. He died of stomach cancer. Filmography Director * 1957 - ''Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (1957 film), Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist lever farligt'' * 1959 - ''Raggare!'' * 1960 - ''The Children of Bullerbyn Village, Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn'' (TV movie) * 1964 - ''Vi på Saltkråkan'' (TV series) * 1964 - ''Tjorven, Båtsman och Moses'' * 1965 - ''Tjorven och Skrållan'' * 1966 - ''Tjorven och Mysak'' * 1967 - ''Skrållan, Ruskprick och Knorrhane'' * 1969 - ''Pippi Long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers Lionheart (film)
''The Brothers Lionheart'' () is a Swedish fantasy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 23 September 1977, directed by Olle Hellbom and based on the 1973 The Brothers Lionheart, book of the same name, written by Astrid Lindgren. It won Sweden's Guldbagge Award for Guldbagge Award for Best Director, Best Director in 1978. Cast * Lars Söderdahl as Karl "Skorpan" Lion(-heart) * Staffan Götestam as Jonatan Lion(-heart) * Allan Edwall as Mattias * Gunn Wållgren as Sofia * Folke Hjort as Jossi * Per Oscarsson as Orvar * Tommy Johnson (actor), Tommy Johnson as Hubert * Jan Nygren as Veder, Tengil's soldier * Michael Gabay, Michael "Micha" Gabay as Kader, Tengil's soldier * Georg Årlin as Tengil * Bertil Norström as Pjuke, Tengil's advisor Production The film was shot in Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. Filming locations included Stockholm for studio interiors and the openings sequence, while Skåne County in Sweden and Århus in Jutland represented Nangijala, while and Dimmu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Wertmüller
Arcangela Felice Assunta "Lina" Wertmüller (; 14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art film, art house films ''Seven Beauties'','''' ''The Seduction of Mimi'', ''Love and Anarchy'', and ''Swept Away (1974 film), Swept Away''. Wertmüller was the first female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. She won many awards, including an Academy Honorary Award, as well as a David di Donatello, David di Donatello Career Achievement Award, and was nominated for many others, including a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award, two Academy Awards, and two Palme d'Or awards. Early life Wertmüller was born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller in Rome, Lazio, in 1928, to Federico, a lawyer from Palazzo San Gervasio, Basilicata, belonging to a devoutly Catholic Church, Catholic family of distant Swiss descent, and to Maria Santamaria-Maurizio from Rome. Wertmüller depicted her childhood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Night Full Of Rain
''A Night Full of Rain'' () is a 1978 romantic drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Candice Bergen. The plot concerns a romantic and heart-breaking relationship between a chauvinist Italian journalist and a feminist American photographer. An international co-production between Italy and the United States, the film was shot in Rome, Calabria and Padua, Italy, as well as in San Francisco and Vancouver. It was Wertmüller's first film with original English-language dialogue. In 1978, the film was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot An American tourist, her head full of Marcuse and radical politics, gets involved in a violent confrontation during a Catholic procession in a small Italian village, seeking to protect an Italian girl. An Italian man, attracted to her, tries to help. As they escape to a magnificent abandoned cloister, the man, a communist, tries to seduce the American by quoting Dante. She refu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Djulgerov
Georgi Djulgerov () is a Bulgarian film director, screenwriter, producer and professor at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. Career Djulgerov was born in Burgas, Bulgaria, on 30 September 1943. After graduating from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow in 1970, he directed numerous feature films and several documentaries, many of which were shown in the competition or parallel programs of the international film festivals in Berlin, Locarno, Oberhausen, Avellino, Palermo, Rotterdam, Montreal, San Francisco, Batumi, Mons, Mannheim-Heidelberg, and Sarajevo. His movies have also been screened in special programs in Warsaw, Paris, New York, London, Frankfurt-am-Main, Moscow, Kiev, Vienna, Los Angeles, La Rochelle, Riga, Bratislava, Fujisawa, Genoa. In 1977, his film '' Advantage'' won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, ''The Camp'' was selected in the "Quinzaine des réalisateurs" program at the Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advantage (film)
''Advantage'' (, translit. Avantazh) is a 1977 Bulgarian drama film directed by Georgi Djulgerov. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where Djulgerov won the Silver Bear for Best Director. Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern ... 1317818725 Sanja Bahun, John Haynes - 2014 A good example of the subversive nature of films, one that also exemplifies the new popularity of the cinéma vérité model, is director Georgi Djulgerov's Advantage (Avantazh, 1977). This extraordinarily ambitious film is based on the real-life story of social outcast and recidivist Lazar 86 Evgenija Garbolevsky. Cast * Rousy Chanev - Petela * Plamen Donchev - Gerchev * Maria Statoulova - Roumiana * Plamena Getova - Gela * Radosveta Vassileva - Uchitelkata * Dimitr Ganev - Lyubo * Veljo Goranov - Palikamara * Diana Chelebieva Diana most commonly refers to: * Diana (name), given name (including a list of people with the name) * Diana (m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larisa Shepitko
Larisa Yefimovna Shepitko (, ; 6 January 1938 – 2 July 1979) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. She is considered one of the best female directors of all time, with her film '' The Ascent'' being the second film directed by a woman to win a Golden Bear and the third film directed by a woman to win a top award at a major European film festival (Cannes, Venice, Berlin). Shepitko was also considered one of the most prominent Soviet filmmakers during both the Khrushchev Thaw and the Era of Stagnation. The Khrushchev Thaw was a direct response to the limitations that were forced upon Soviet citizens during Stalin's reign, and essentially marked the inception of an innovative return to the cinematic arts. Shepitko's career was cut short in 1979 when she was killed in a car accident while scouting locations for the film ''Farewell''. Her husband Elem Klimov created a 20-minute tribute documentary called ''Larisa'' to honor her legacy. Early life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Carolina (director)
Ana Carolina (born 27 September 1945) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She directed seven films between 1969 and 2003. In 1978, she was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1982 film ''Heart and Guts'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Early career and documentary work Ana Carolina Teixeira Soares attended school with the intention of becoming a doctor, but instead changed direction and became a filmmaker.Foster, G. (1995). ''Women film directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary''. Westport, Conn.: ull Greenwood Press.Pg. 66 She graduated in 1964 from ''University of São Paulo Med School''. Several years later she went to a School of Physiotherapy, taking special interest in university politics. She also spent a few of her early years in a Renaissance band called "Musikantiga". She was highly focused in her early years as a filmmaker, as she made 11 documentaries in her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Eceiza
Antonio Eceiza (14 September 1935 – 15 November 2011) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed eleven films between 1960 and 1995. He is notable for promoting the growth of Basque cinema. His 1977 film '' Mina, Wind of Freedom'' was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. Filmography * '' Día de paro'' (1960) * '' A través de San Sebastián'' (1960) * ''A través del fútbol'' (1962) * '' The Innocents'' (1963 - screenwriter) * ''Último encuentro'' (1967) * '' El próximo otoño'' (1967) * '' De cuerpo presente'' (1967) * ''Las secretas intenciones ''Las secretas intenciones'', is a Mexican telenovela produced by Lucy Orozco for Televisa in 1992. Starring by Cristián Castro and Yolanda Andrade with Helena Rojo, Silvia Pasquel and David Ostrosky as the main antagonists. Cast * Cristi ...'' (1970) * '' Mina, viento de libertad'' (1977) * '' El complot mongol'' (1978) * '' Ke arteko egunak'' (1990) * '' Felicidades Tovarich'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
