35th Berlin International Film Festival explained
The 35th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1985.[1] The retrospective was dedicated to Special effects.[2]
The Golden Bear was jointly awarded awarded to The Woman and the Strangler directed by Rainer Simon and Wetherby directed by David Hare.
Juries
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[3]
- Jean Marais, French actor - Jury President
- Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
- Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and filmmaker
- Regimantas Adomaitis, Soviet actor
- Sheila Benson, American journalist and film critic
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase, East German writer
- Onat Kutlar, Turkish poet, essayist and screenwriter
- Luis Megino, Spanish writer and producer
- Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, West-German head of the Goethe-Institut of New York
- , West-German producer
- István Szabó, Hungarian filmmaker
Official Sections
Main Competition
The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:[4]
Out of competition
Retrospective
The following films were shown in the retrospective "Special Effects":[5]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea | | United States |
7 Faces of Dr. Lao | |
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan H. Juran |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Charles Lamont |
Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | Germany |
Again and Again, Good Luck | Immer wieder Glück | Ferdinand Diehl | West Germany |
Air Mail | John Ford | United States |
Alien | Ridley Scott | United States, United Kingdom |
Beauty and the Beast | La Belle et la Bête | Jean Cocteau | France |
The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
Blithe Spirit | David Lean | United Kingdom |
Captain Sindbad | | United States, West Germany |
Citizen Kane | | United States |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Robert Stevenson |
Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany |
Destination Moon | | United States |
The Devil-Doll | Tod Browning |
The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner |
End of the World | La fin du monde | Abel Gance | France |
Eraserhead | David Lynch | United States |
The Exorcist | William Friedkin |
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen | Baron Prášil | Karel Zeman | Czechoslovakia |
Forbidden Planet | Fred McLeod Wilcox | United States |
Georges Méliès – short films from the years 1896 to 1912 | Georges Méliès | France |
Godzilla | ゴジラ | | Japan |
The Golden Key | Zolotoy Klyuchik | Aleksandr Ptushko | Soviet Union |
Hardware Wars | Ernie Fosselius | United States |
The Haunting | Robert Wise | United Kingdom |
Heart of Stone | Das kalte Herz | Paul Verhoeven | East Germany |
The Haunted Castle | Das Spukschloß im Spessart | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany |
The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | United States |
The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Joel Schumacher |
The Invisible Man | James Whale |
The Invisible Man Returns | Joe May |
The Invisible Woman | Edward Sutherland |
Invisible Agent | Edwin L. Marin |
Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton |
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer |
Jason and the Argonauts | Don Chaffey | United States, United Kingdom |
Journey to the Beginning of Time | Cesta do praveku | | Czechoslovakia |
The Lost World | Harry O. Hoyt | United States |
Magic Seed | Волшебное зерно | Fyodor Filippov and Valentin Kadochnikov | Soviet Union |
Man with a Movie Camera | Человек с киноаппаратом | Dziga Vertov |
Marry Poppins | Robert Stevenson | United States |
Metropolis | Fritz Lang | Germany |
The Mysterious Island | Lucien Hubbard, Maurice Tourneur and Benjamin Christensen | United States |
The New Gulliver | Новый Гулливер | Aleksandr Ptushko | Soviet Union |
Operation Undersea | Winston Hibler and Hamilton Luske | United States |
Orpheus | Orphée | Jean Cocteau | France |
Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | United States |
San Francisco | |
Serials: Flying heroes and smoking spaceships (includes Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) | Serials: Fliegende Helden und qualmende Raumschiffe | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor and others |
Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull |
The Son of Kong | Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion | Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion | Theo Mezger | West Germany |
Star Wars | George Lucas | United States, United Kingdom |
The Student of Prague | Der Student von Prag | Stellan Rye | Germany |
Sylvia and the Ghost | Sylvie et le fantôme | Claude Autant-Lara | France |
Synthetischer Film | Helmut Herbst | West Germany |
Testament of Orpheus | Le testament d'Orphée | Jean Cocteau | France |
Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | United Kingdom |
This Island Earth | Joseph Newman and Jack Arnold | United States |
Tommy | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |
Topper Returns | | United States |
Universe | Colin Low and Roman Kroitor | Canada |
The War Of The Worlds | Byron Haskin | United States |
The Wizard Of Oz | Victor Fleming |
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | | |
Official Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:[6]
Independent Awards
Literature
- Brigitte Tast: Als Farbe das Grau, als Format der Innenblick. 35. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1985, Schellerten 2014,
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 35th Berlin International Film Festival . 8 January 2011 . berlinale.de. https://web.archive.org/web/20101228182902/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1985/01_jahresblatt_1985/01_Jahresblatt_1985.html. 28 December 2010 . live.
- Web site: RETROSPECTIVE . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170304113847/http://www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/sektionen_sonderveranstaltungen/retrospektive/index.html . 4 March 2017 . 28 July 2014.
- Web site: JURIES 1985 . 8 June 2014 . berlinale.de . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023130548/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1985/04_jury_1985/04_Jury_1985.html. 23 October 2013 . live.
- Web site: PROGRAMME 1985. 8 June 2014 . berlinale.de. https://web.archive.org/web/20140106032640/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1985/02_programm_1985/02_Programm_1985.html. 6 January 2014 . live.
- Web site: RETROSPECTIVE 1985 . 28 July 2014.
- Web site: PRIZES & HONOURS 1985. 8 June 2014 . berlinale.de. https://web.archive.org/web/20140429161624/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1985/03_preistr_ger_1985/03_Preistraeger_1985.html. 29 April 2014 . live.