28th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival

28th Berlin International Film Festival

28th Berlin International Film Festival

Film festival

The 28th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 February to 5 March 1978.[1] Director Wolf Donner successfully managed to shift the festival's date from June to February, a change which has remained ever since.[2] This was the first year the festival was held in February.[1] 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.

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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 La palabras de Max by Emilio Martínez Lázaro and Las truchas by José Luis García Sánchez.[3]

A new section for children was introduced at the festival.[4] 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 – Banned German Films 1933-1945".[5]

Jury

Patricia Highsmith, Jury President

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[6]

Films in competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:[7]

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Out of competition

Key

† Winner of the main award for best film in its section
The opening and closing films are screened during the opening and closing ceremonies respectively.

Retrospective

1978 Retrospective poster featuring Marlene Dietrich

The following films were shown in the retrospective dedicated to Marlene Dietrich (Part 2):

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Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "28th Berlin International Film Festival". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  2. [2]
    Langford, Michelle (2012). Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Vol. 9. Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA: Intellect. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-84150-465-0.
  3. [3]
    "PRIZES & HONOURS 1978". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Berlinale beginnings". 8 February 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  5. [5]
    "RETROSPECTIVE". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  6. [6]
    "JURIES 1978". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  7. [7]
    Blumenberg, Hans C. (10 March 1978). "Germany in Autumn". zeit.de. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
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