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28th Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival chronology
Festival poster
Opening film	Opening Night
Closing film	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Location	West Berlin, Germany
Founded	1951
Awards	Golden Bear: Ascensor What Max Said Las truchas
Festival date	22 February – 5 March 1978
Website	Website
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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.

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.^[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]

Juries

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

Main Competition

Patricia Highsmith, American writer - Jury President
Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker and producer
Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker and producer
Jacques Rozier, French filmmaker
Konrad Wolf, East-German filmmaker
Frieda Grafe, West-German essayist and film critic
Antonio Eceiza, Spanish filmmaker
Ana Carolina Teixeira Soares, Brazilian filmmaker
Larisa Shepitko, Soviet filmmaker

Official Sections

Main Competition

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
Advantage	Авантаж	Georgi Djulgerov	Bulgaria
A Night Full of Rain	La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia	Lina Wertmüller	Italy, United States
Ascensor		Tomás Muñoz	Spain
The Brothers Lionheart	Bröderna Lejonhjärta	Olle Hellbom	Sweden
The Chess Players	Shatranj Ke Khilari	Satyajit Ray	India
Co jsme udělali slepicím		Josef Hekrdle and Vladimír Jiránek	Czechoslovakia
The Contraption		James Dearden	United Kingdom
Death of a President	Śmierć prezydenta	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Poland
The Dog Who Loved Trains	Pas koji je voleo vozove	Goran Paskaljević	Yugoslavia
The Fall	A Queda	Ruy Guerra and Nelson Xavier	Brazil
The Far Road	遠い一本の道	Sachiko Hidari	Japan
Flaming Hearts	Flammende Herzen	Walter Bockmayer and Rolf Bührmann	West Germany
Germany in Autumn	Deutschland im Herbst	Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert and Bernhard Sinkel	West Germany
Jörg Ratgeb – Painter	Jörg Ratgeb – Maler	Bernhard Stephan	East Germany
Lemon Popsicle	אסקימו לימון	Boaz Davidson	Israel
Lone Wolf	Бирю́к	Roman Balayan	Soviet Union
Moritz, Dear Moritz	Moritz, lieber Moritz	Hark Bohm	West Germany
My Father's Happy Years	Apám néhány boldog éve	Sándor Simó	Hungary
One Page of Love	Une page d'amour	Maurice Rabinowicz	Belgium, France
Opening Night		John Cassavetes	United States
Outrageous!		Richard Benner	Canada
Paper Flowers	Flores de papel	Gabriel Retes	Mexico
Rhinegold	Rheingold	Niklaus Schilling	West Germany
The Serpent's Egg		Ingmar Bergman	United States, West Germany
The Teacher	El brigadista	Octavio Cortázar	Cuba
Trout	Las truchas	José Luis García Sánchez	Spain
Une vieille soupière		Michel Longuet	France
What Max Said	La palabras de Max	Emilio Martínez-Lázaro	Spain

Out of competition

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg (United States)
Il prefetto di ferro, directed by Pasquale Squitieri (Italy)
Sextette, directed by Ken Hughes (United States)
The Last Wave, directed by Peter Weir (Australia)

Retrospective

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
Angel		Ernst Lubitsch	United States
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler		Louis Clyde Stoumen
Desire		Frank Borzage
Destry Rides Again		George Marshall
The Flame of New Orleans		René Clair
The Garden of Allah		Richard Boleslawski
Kismet		William Dieterle
Leap Into Life	Der Sprung ins Leben	Johannes Guter	Germany
The Woman One Longs For	Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt	Curtis Bernhardt	Germany
No Highway in the Sky		Henry Koster	United Kingdom
Rancho Notorious		Fritz Lang	United States
Touch of Evil		Orson Welles	United States

Official Awards

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

Golden Bear:
- What Max Said by Emilio Martínez Lázaro
- Las truchas by José Luis García Sánchez
- Ascensor by Tomás Muñoz (short film)
Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: A Queda by Ruy Guerra, Nelson Xavier
Silver Bear for Best Director: Georgi Djulgerov for Advantage
Silver Bear for Best Actress: Gena Rowlands for Opening Night
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Craig Russell for Outrageous!
Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution:
- Death of a President by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- The Teacher by Octavio Cortázar
Special Recognition: Germany in Autumn

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Award

My Father's Happy Years by Sándor Simó

References

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

External links

Berlin International Film Festival

Awards

Main competition	Golden Bear Grand Jury Prize Jury Prize Director Screenplay Leading Performance Supporting Performance Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Other awards	Honorary Golden Bear Short Film Golden Bear Short Film Silver Bear Encounters
Retired awards	Alfred Bauer Prize Actor Actress
Independent awards	FIPRESCI Award Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Shooting Stars Award Teddy Award

By year

List of Berlin International Film Festival jury presidents

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