2nd Moscow International Film Festival
Location | Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Founded | 1959 |
Awards | Grand Prix |
Festival date | 9–23 July 1961 |
Website | http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru |
The 2nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 July 1961.[1] The Grand Prix was shared between the Japanese film The Naked Island directed by Kaneto Shindo and the Soviet film Clear Skies directed by Grigori Chukhrai.
Jury[]
- Sergei Yutkevich (USSR - President of the Jury)
- Chinghiz Aitmatov (USSR)
- Zoltán Várkonyi (Hungary)
- Luchino Visconti (Italy)
- Sergei Gerasimov (USSR)
- Karel Zeman (Czechoslovakia)
- Mehboob Khan (India)
- Joshua Logan (USA)
- (France)
- (Great Britain)
- (Mexico)
- (Egypt)
- Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
- (China)
- Michael Tschesno-Hell (East Germany)
- Liviu Ciulei (Romania)
- (Bulgaria)
Films in competition[]
The following films were selected for the main competition:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Alba Regia | Alba Regia | Mihály Szemes | Hungary |
Das Riesenrad | Das Riesenrad | Géza von Radványi | West Germany |
Big Request Concert | Das große Wunschkonzert | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Austria |
N/A | Det store varpet | Nils R. Müller | Norway |
Warriors for Freedom | Pedjuang | Usmar Ismail | Indonesia |
William Tell | Wilhelm Tell | Switzerland | |
Sunrise at Campobello | N/A | Vincent J. Donehue | United States |
The Children of Bullerbyn Village | Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn | Olle Hellbom | Sweden |
Everybody Go Home | Tutti a casa | Luigi Comencini | Italy, France |
The Naked Island | Hadaka no shima | Kaneto Shindo | Japan |
Thirst | Setea | Mircea Drăgan | Romania |
Enclosure | L'Enclos | Armand Gatti | France, Yugoslavia |
We Were Young | A byahme mladi | Binka Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria |
Kukuli | Kukuli | , , Cesar Villanueva | Peru |
Kurulubedda | Ceylon | ||
Chaudhvin Ka Chand | Chaudhvin Ka Chand | India | |
Ulaan-Baatart baygaa miniy aavd | Mongolia | ||
The Beginning and the End | بداية ونهاية | Salah Abu Seif | Egypt |
N/A | Nebeski odred | , | Yugoslavia |
Lửa Trung Tuyến | North Vietnam | ||
The Last Winter | Den sidste vinter | Frank Dunlop, Anker Sørensen, Edvin Tiemroth | Denmark, West Germany |
The Haunted Castle | Das Spukschloß im Spessart | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany |
Professor Mamlock | Professor Mamlock | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
The Trials of Oscar Wilde | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Ken Hughes | United Kingdom |
Stories of the Revolution | Historias de la revolución | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
Tumangan River | North Korea | ||
Tonight a City Will Die | Dziś w nocy umrze miasto | Jan Rybkowski | Poland |
A Revolutionary Family | Geming jiating | Shui Hua | China |
N/A | Skandaali tyttökoulussa | Edvin Laine | Finland |
Juana Gallo | Juana Gallo | Miguel Zacarías | Mexico |
Fetters | Pouta | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovakia |
Clear Skies | Chistoe nebo | Grigori Chukhrai | Soviet Union |
This Earth Is Mine | Esta tierra es mía | Hugo del Carril | Argentina |
Awards[]
- Grand Prix:
- The Naked Island by Kaneto Shindo
- Clear Skies by Grigori Chukhrai
- Special Golden Prize: Everybody Go Home by Luigi Comencini
- Golden Prizes:
- Silver Prizes:
- Alba Regia by Mihály Szemes
- Thirst by Mircea Drăgan
- The Haunted Castle by Kurt Hoffmann
- Director: Armand Gatti for Enclosure
- Actor: Peter Finch for The Trials of Oscar Wilde
- Actor: for Warriors for Freedom
- Actress: Yu Lan for A Revolutionary Family
- Director of photography: for Tonight a City Will Die
- Decorator Bill Constable and costume designer Terence Morgan for The Trials of Oscar Wilde
References[]
- ^ "2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
External links[]
- Moscow International Film Festival: 1961 at Internet Movie Database
Categories:
- Moscow International Film Festival
- 1961 film festivals
- 1961 in the Soviet Union
- 1961 in Moscow