Goldener Bar 1970-1979
Movies to watch awarded or nominated in the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin during the '70s
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- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsHugh GriffithLaura BettiNinetto DavoliPasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeBobitaSandhya RoyAs food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsRichard DreyfussMicheline LanctôtJack WardenIn a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsKatalin BerekGyöngyvér VighPéter FriedA lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsPaul NewmanJoel GreyKevin McCarthyA cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBoris PlotnikovVladimir GostyukhinSergey YakovlevTwo Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
- DirectorJosé Luis García SánchezStarsHéctor AlterioJuan AmigoOfelia AngélicaIn a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsIgnacio Fernández de CastroMyriam de MaeztuGracia QuerejetaA middle-aged man who has reached a crisis point in his domestic life tries to reassemble his past.
- DirectorPeter LilienthalStarsMario FischelWalter TaubIrena VrkljanDavid (Mario Fischel), the son of a local rabbi (Walter Taub), sees the rise in anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany, but it isn't until his father's synagogue is burned down and his mother (Irene Vrkijan) is harassed and intimidated that he realizes just how dangerous Germany has become. For a while, he and his family manage to survive underground in Berlin. But a close encounter with a German officer convinces him to break ties with everyone he loves and head out on his own.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománMarcelo RomoThe real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
- DirectorGonzalo SuárezStarsGonzalo SuárezAlberto PuigOlga VidaliDr. Faust, a highly successful scholar, although dissatisfied with his life to the point of being willing to make a pact with the Devil himself if necessary, is observed by unknown creatures from outer space. Suddenly, a strange and beautiful woman appears in his life. But her abnormal behavior will make Dr. Faust's world slide, slowly and inexorably, towards madness.
- DirectorJacques DerayStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAlain DelonCatherine RouvelDuring the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaRichard SchechnerStarsRemi BarclaySamuel BlazerJason BosseauFilmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text. Filmed by Brian DePalma.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsAnn-Sofie KylinRolf SohlmanAnita LindblomTwo teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.
- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsCatherine JourdanPierre ZimmerRichard LeducA group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
- DirectorMaurice CapovillaStarsJosé Mojica MarinsMaurício do ValleJulia MirandaThe story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsNorma BengellOthon BastosÍtala NandiIn the 1930's, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who had already been shot 7 times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsTina AumontGigi ProiettiNino SeguriniA runaway bride and an eccentric vagrant embark on a surreal journey in a twisted world reflecting 60s pop culture, sex, and politics.
- DirectorPaul WilliamsStarsBarry GordonJon VoightLada Edmund Jr.The story of two high school students: one a socially inept intellectual, the other a not-so-bright football hero and lady killer.
- DirectorMichael FenglerRainer Werner FassbinderStarsLilith UngererKurt RaabAmadeus FenglerWith slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab's wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsIsabelle WeingartenGuillaume des ForêtsJean-Maurice MonnoyerJacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsRade SerbedzijaMajda PotokarMajda GrbacAn ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.
- DirectorRichard HarrisUri ZoharStarsRichard HarrisRomy SchneiderKim BurfieldEitan is yesterday's football star waiting for a tomorrow. He is a man who has nothing left but guts consulting the prospects of having to find a new profession and having to face a loving woman who doesn't understand his problems.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsAnna KarinaMathieu CarrièreRoger Van HoolIn 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxembourg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful but mute woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.
- DirectorPierre Granier-DeferreStarsJean GabinSimone SignoretAnnie CordyIn 1971 Courbevoie (France), former typographist Julien Bouin and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, which is soon to be demolished. To Clemence's anger, Julien's cat Greffier is the only one who gets his attention, let alone love.