14th Berlin International Film Festival

14th Berlin International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Berlin, Germany
Founded	1951
Awards	Golden Bear (Susuz Yaz)
Festival date	26 June – 7 July 1964
Website	Website

The 14th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1964.^[1] The Swedish film 491 by Vilgot Sjöman was rejected by festival director Alfred Bauer owing to its controversial nature.^[1] The Golden Bear was awarded to the Turkish film Susuz Yaz directed by Metin Erksan.^[2]

Jury

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:^[3]

• Anthony Mann (Head of Jury)
• Hermann Schwerin
• Lucas Demare
• Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
• Yorgos Javellas
• Richard Todd
• Takashi Hamama
• Gerd Ressing

Films in competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:^[4]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
	Circe	Manuel Antín	Argentina
Time of the Innocent	Die Zeit der Schuldlosen	Thomas Fantl	Germany
Soft Hands	El aydi el naema	Mahmoud Zulfikar	Egypt
Faust	Faust	Michael Suman	USA
Destination Death	Herrenpartie	Wolfgang Staudte	Yugoslavia, Germany
	Kanojo to kare	Susumu Hani	Japan
This Summer at Five	Kesällä kello 5	Erkko Kivikoski	Finland
In the Affirmative	L'Amour avec des si	Claude Lelouch	France
	La Difficulté d'être infidèle	Bernard Toublanc-Michel	Italy, France
	La ragazza di Bube	Luigi Comencini	Italy, France
	La visita	Antonio Pietrangeli	Italy, France
Weeping for a Bandit	Llanto por un bandido	Carlos Saura	Spain, France, Italy
The Escaped	Los evadidos	Enrique Carreras	Argentina
The Big City	Mahanagar	Satyajit Ray	India
Night Must Fall	Night Must Fall	Karel Reisz	United Kingdom
The Insect Woman	Nippon konchuki	Shōhei Imamura	Japan
Of Human Bondage	Of Human Bondage	Ken Hughes, Henry Hathaway	United Kingdom
	Os Fuzis	Ruy Guerra	Brazil, Argentina
Polish Passion	Polnische Passion	Janusz Piekałkiewicz	Poland
School for Suicide	Selvmordsskolen	Knud Leif Thomsen	Denmark
Dry Summer	Susuz Yaz	Metin Erksan	Turkey
The Pawnbroker	The Pawnbroker	Sidney Lumet	USA
	Tonio Kröger	Rolf Thiele	France, Germany

Key

^†	Winner of the main award for best film in its section

Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:^[2]

• Golden Bear: Susuz Yaz by Metin Erksan
• Silver Bear for Best Director: Satyajit Ray for Mahanagar
• Silver Bear for Best Actress: Sachiko Hidari for Nippon konchuki and Kanojo to kare
• Silver Bear for Best Actor: Rod Steiger for The Pawnbroker
• Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize: Ruy Guerra for Os Fuzis
• Youth Film Award
  • Best Documentary Film Suitable for Young People: The Human Dutch by Bert Haanstra
  • Best Feature Film Suitable for Young People: Kanojo to kare by Susumu Hani
• Youth Film Award - Honorable Mention
  • Best Short Film Suitable for Young People: Anmeldung by Rob Houwer and Aru kikanjoshi by Noriaki Tsuchimoto
  • Best Feature Film Suitable for Young People: Time of the Innocent by Thomas Fantl
• FIPRESCI Award
  • La visita by Antonio Pietrangeli
• FIPRESCI Award - Honorable Mention
  • The Pawnbroker by Sidney Lumet
• Interfilm Award
  • School for Suicide by Knud Leif Thomsen
• OCIC Award
  • Kanojo to kare by Susumu Hani
• UNICRIT Award
  • The Human Dutch by Bert Haanstra

References

1. "14th Berlin International Film Festival". berlinale.de. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
2. "PRIZES & HONOURS 1964". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
3. "JURIES 1964". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
4. "PROGRAMME 1964". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.

External links

• 14th Berlin International Film Festival 1964
• 1964 Berlin International Film Festival
• Berlin International Film Festival:1964 at Internet Movie Database