9th Berlin International Film Festival
# 9th Berlin International Film Festival

The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Truffaut. The Golden Bear was awarded to the French film Les Cousins directed by Claude Chabrol.

## Jury

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

International feature film jury

* Robert Aldrich, director (United States) - Jury President
* Johan Jacobsen, director, screenwriter and producer (Denmark)
* Charles Ford, writer and filmmaker (France)
* John Bryan, production designer (United Kingdom)
* Ignazio Tranquilli, writer and playwright (Italy)
* Shigeo Miyata, painter and physician (Japan)
* Wali Eddine Sameh, director (United Arab Emirates)
* O. E. Hasse, actor (West Germany)
* Gerhard Prager, writer and producer (West Germany)
* Fritz Podehl, producer (West Germany)
* Walther Schmieding, journalist (West Germany)

International documentary and short jury

* Curt Oertel, director and director of photography (West Germany) - Jury President
* M.D. Bath (India)
* Hans Cürlis, director (West Germany)
* Paul Davay, film critic (Belgium)
* Odd Hølaas, journalist and writer (Norway)
* Katina Paxinou, actress (Greece)
* Alfonso Sánchez Martínez, journalist and film critic (Spain)

## Films in competition

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

Feature film :

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Archimède le clochard | Gilles Grangier | France |
| Ask Any Girl | | Charles Walters | USA |
| Astero | Αστέρω Astero | Dinos Dimopoulos | Greece |
| The Rest Is Silence | Der Rest ist Schweigen | Helmut Käutner | West Germany |
| Ten Ready Rifles | Diez fusiles esperan | José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Spain, Italy |
| The Village on the River | Dorp aan de rivier | Fons Rademakers | Netherlands |
| Beyond All Limits | Flor de mayo | Roberto Gavaldón | Mexico |
| Naked Sun | 裸 の 貸与 Hadaka no taiyō | Miyoji Ieki | Japan |
| Hassan and Nayima | حسن ونعيمة Hassan wa Nayima | Henry Barakat | Egypt |
| The Master and His Servants | Herren og hans tjenere | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| Home Is the Hero | | Fielder Cook | Ireland |
| The Bell Tower: Missing Another Dawn | 종각 Jonggak | Ju-nam Yang | South Korea |
| The Hidden Fortress | 隠し砦の三悪人 Kakushi toride no san akunin | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| The Phantom Carriage | Körkarlen | Arne Mattsson | Sweden |
| | La caída | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Argentina |
| | Les Cousins | Claude Chabrol | France |
| Wolves of the Deep | Lupi nell'abisso | Silvio Amadio | Italy |
| Three Loves in Rio | Meus Amores no Rio | Carlos Hugo Christensen | Brazil, Argentina |
| | Panoptikum 59 | Walter Kolm-Veltée | Austria |
| The Poet and the Little Mother | Poeten og Lillemor | Erik Balling | Denmark |
| The Holy Island | সাগর সঙ্গমে বাংলা ছবি Sagar Sangamey | Debaki Bose | India |
| Sven Tuuva the Hero | Sven Tuuva | Edvin Laine | Finland |
| Broken Spell | سیامک یاسمی Telesme schekasté | Siamak Yasemi | Iran |
| That Kind of Woman | | Sidney Lumet | USA |
| Four Desperate Men | The Siege of Pinchgut | Harry Watt | United Kingdom |
| Tiger Bay | | J. Lee Thompson | United Kingdom |
| The Defeated Victor | Un uomo facile | Paolo Heusch | Italy |
| And That on Monday Morning | Und das am Montagmorgen | Luigi Comencini | West Germany |

Documentary and short film :

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Anneaux d'or | René Vautier | Tunisia, France |
| White Wilderness | | James Algar | USA |
| | I ditteri | Alberto Ancilotto | Italy |
| Stars at Noon | Les Étoiles de midi | Jacques Ertaud and Marcel Ichac | France |
| | Gloria della Marciana | Emilio Marsili | Italy |
| Horse on Holiday | Hest på sommerferie | Astrid Henning-Jensen | Denmark, United Kingdom |
| | Das Knalleidoskop | Herbert Hunger | West Germany |
| Paradise and Fire Oven | Paradies und Feuerofen | Herbert Viktor | West Germany |
| Power Among Men | | Alexander Hammid, Gian Luigi Polidoro and V. R. Sarma | United Kingdom |
| Praise the Sea | Prijs de zee | Herman van der Horst | Netherlands |
| Radha and Krishna | राधा और कृष्ण Radha and Krishna | J. S. Bhownagary | India |
| | Tierra mágica | Massimo Dallamano and Vittorio Valentini | Venezuela |

## Key

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

## Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:

International jury awards

* Golden Bear: Les Cousins by Claude Chabrol
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Akira Kurosawa for Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine for Ask Any Girl
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Jean Gabin for Archimède le clochard
* Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize: Hayley Mills for Tiger Bay

Documentaries and short films jury awards

* Golden Bear (Documentaries): White Wilderness by James Algar
* Short Film Golden Bear: Prijs de zee by Herman van der Horsti
* Silver Bear for Best Short Film: ex aequo Das Knalleidoskop by Herbert Hunger Radha and Krishna by J. S. Bhownagary
* Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize (Short film): Hest på sommerferie by Astrid Henning-Jensen
* Recognition of honor (Short Film): I ditteri by Alberto Ancilotto

Independent jury awards

* FIPRESCI Award
   * Kakushi toride no san akunin by Akira Kurosawa
* OCIC Award
   * Paradies und Feuerofen by Victor Herbert
* Youth Film Award (Jugendfilmpreis):
   * Best Feature Film Suitable for Young People: Hadaka no taiyō by Miyoji Ieki
   * Best Documentary Film Suitable for Young People: Paradies und Feuerofen by Herbert Viktor
   * Best Short Film Suitable for Young People: Anneaux d'or by René Vautier
