35th Berlin International Film Festival
# 35th Berlin International Film Festival

The 35th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1985. The Golden Bear was awarded to East German film Die Frau und der Fremde directed by Rainer Simon and British film Wetherby directed by David Hare. The retrospective was dedicated to Special effects.

## Jury

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

* Jean Marais, actor (France) - Jury President
* Max von Sydow, actor (Sweden)
* Alberto Sordi, actor, screenwriter and director (Italy)
* Regimantas Adomaitis, actor (Soviet Union)
* Sheila Benson, journalist and film critic (United States)
* Wolfgang Kohlhaase, writer (East Germany)
* Onat Kutlar, poet, essayist and screenwriter (Turkey)
* Luis Megino, writer and producer (Spain)
* Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, head of the Goethe-Institut of New York (West Germany)
* Chris Sievernich [de], producer (West Germany)
* István Szabó, director and screenwriter (Hungary)

## Films in competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1919 | 1919 | Hugh Brody | United Kingdom |
| After Darkness | After Darkness | Sergio Guerraz, Dominique Othenin-Girard | Switzerland |
| Count to Ten | Contar hasta diez | Oscar Barney Finn | Argentina |
| | Daengbyeot | Hah Myung-joong | South Korea |
| The Woman and the Stranger | Die Frau und der Fremde | Rainer Simon | East Germany |
| The Children | Les enfants | Marguerite Duras, Jean Mascolo, Jean-Marc Turine | France |
| Heartbreakers | Heartbreakers | Bobby Roth | USA |
| Hail Mary | Je vous salue, Marie | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| Loafing and Camouflage | Lufa ke Paralayi | Nikos Perakis | Greece |
| | Morenga | Egon Günther | West Germany |
| Mrs. Soffel | Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | USA |
| The Night of the Emerald Moon | Noc smaragdového měsíce | Václav Matějka | Czechoslovakia |
| | Pehlivan | Zeki Ökten | Turkey |
| Pizza Connection | | Damiano Damiani | Italy |
| Places in the Heart | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton | USA |
| The Descendant of the Snow Leopard | Potomok belogo barsa | Tolomush Okeyev | Soviet Union |
| The Practice of Love | Die Praxis der Liebe | Valie Export | West Germany |
| Death in a French Garden | Péril en la demeure | Michel Deville | France |
| Ronia, the Robber's Daughter | Ronja Rövardotter | Tage Danielsson | Sweden |
| | Seburi Monogatari | Sadao Nakajima | Japan |
| | Stico | Jaime de Armiñán | Spain |
| Flowers of Reverie | Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk | László Lugossy | Hungary |
| The Death of the White Stallion | Der Tod des weißen Pferdes | Christian Ziewer | West Germany |
| Wetherby | Wetherby | David Hare | United Kingdom |
| Wrong World | Wrong World | Ian Pringle | Australia |

## Out of competition

* 2010: The Year We Make Contact, directed by Peter Hyams (USA)
* Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam (United Kingdom)
* Country, directed by Richard Pearce (USA)
* Grünstein's Clever Move [de], directed by Bernhard Wicki (West Germany)
* Niemanns Zeit – Ein deutscher Heimatfilm, directed by Horst Kurnitzky and Marion Schmid (West Germany)
* 東京裁判 Tōkyō Saiban, directed by Masaki Kobayashi (Japan)
* 雅马哈鱼档 Yamaha yudang, directed by Liang Zhang (China)

## Key

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

## Retrospective

The following films were shown in the retrospective "Special Effects":

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| 20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | USA |
| 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | George Pal | USA |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Charles Lamont | USA |
| Air Mail | Air Mail | John Ford | USA |
| Alien | Alien | Ridley Scott | USA, United Kingdom |
| The Fabulous Baron Munchausen | Baron Prášil | Karel Zeman | Czechoslovakia |
| Blithe Spirit | Blithe Spirit | David Lean | United Kingdom |
| Captain Sindbad | Captain Sindbad | Byron Haskin | USA, West Germany |
| Journey to the Beginning of Time | Cesta do praveku | Karel Zeman | Czechoslovakia |
| Citizen Kane | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | USA |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | USA |
| Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Robert Stevenson | USA |
| | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany |
| Heart of Stone | Das kalte Herz | Paul Verhoeven | East Germany |
| The Haunted Castle | Das Spukschloß im Spessart | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany |
| The Student of Prague | Der Student von Prag | Stellan Rye | Germany |
| Destination Moon | Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | USA |
| Eraserhead | Eraserhead | David Lynch | USA |
| Forbidden Planet | Forbidden Planet | Fred McLeod Wilcox | USA |
| Georges Méliès – short films from the years 1896 to 1912 | | Georges Méliès | France |
| Godzilla | ゴジラ | Ishirō Honda | Japan |
| Hardware Wars | Hardware Wars | Ernie Fosselius | USA |
| Again and Again, Good Luck | Immer wieder Glück | Ferdinand Diehl | West Germany |
| Invisible Agent | Invisible Agent | Edwin L. Marin | USA |
| Island of Lost Souls | Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | USA |
| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | USA |
| Jason and the Argonauts | Jason and the Argonauts | Don Chaffey | USA, United Kingdom |
| Beauty and the Beast | La Belle et la Bête | Jean Cocteau | France |
| End of the World | La fin du monde | Abel Gance | France |
| Testament of Orpheus | Le testament d'Orphée | Jean Cocteau | France |
| Marry Poppins | Mary Poppins | Robert Stevenson | USA |
| Metropolis | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | Germany |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | Germany |
| The New Gulliver | Новый Гулливер | Aleksandr Ptushko | Soviet Union |
| Operation Undersea | | Winston Hibler and Hamilton Luske | USA |
| Orpheus | Orphée | Jean Cocteau | France |
| Poltergeist | Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | USA |
| Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion | Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion | Theo Mezger | West Germany |
| San Francisco | San Francisco | W. S. Van Dyke | USA |
| Serials: Flying heroes and smoking spaceships (includes Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) | Serials: Fliegende Helden und qualmende Raumschiffe | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor and others | USA |
| Silent Running | Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull | USA |
| The Golden Key | Zolotoy Klyuchik | Aleksandr Ptushko | Soviet Union |
| Star Wars | Star Wars | George Lucas | USA, United Kingdom |
| Sylvia and the Ghost | Sylvie et le fantôme | Claude Autant-Lara | France |
| Synthetischer Film | | Helmut Herbst | West Germany |
| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan H. Juran | USA |
| The Birds | The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | USA |
| The Devil-Doll | The Devil-Doll | Tod Browning | USA |
| The Empire Strikes Back | The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | USA |
| The Exorcist | The Exorcist | William Friedkin | USA |
| The Haunting | The Haunting | Robert Wise | United Kingdom |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man | The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | USA |
| The Incredible Shrinking Woman | The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Joel Schumacher | USA |
| The Invisible Man | The Invisible Man | James Whale | USA |
| The Invisible Man Returns | The Invisible Man Returns | Joe May | USA |
| The Invisible Woman | The Invisible Woman | Edward Sutherland | USA |
| The Lost World | The Lost World | Harry O. Hoyt | USA |
| The Mysterious Island | The Mysterious Island | Lucien Hubbard, Maurice Tourneur and Benjamin Christensen | USA |
| The Son of Kong | The Son of Kong | Ernest B. Schoedsack | USA |
| The War Of The Worlds | The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | USA |
| The Wizard Of Oz | The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | USA |
| The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Henry Levin and George Pal | USA |
| Things to Come | Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | United Kingdom |
| This Island Earth | This Island Earth | Joseph Newman and Jack Arnold | USA |
| Tommy | Tommy | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |
| Topper Returns | Topper Returns | Roy Del Ruth | USA |
| Man with a Movie Camera | Человек с киноаппаратом | Dziga Vertov | Soviet Union |
| Universe | Universe | Colin Low and Roman Kroitor | Canada |
| Magic Seed | Волшебное зерно Volshebnoye zerno | Fyodor Filippov and Valentin Kadochnikov | Soviet Union |

## Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:

* Golden Bear:
   * Die Frau und der Fremde by Rainer Simon
   * Wetherby by David Hare
* Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk by László Lugossy
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Robert Benton for Places in the Heart
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Jo Kennedy for Wrong World
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Fernando Fernán Gómez for Stico
* Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement: Tolomush Okeyev for Potomok belogo barsa
* Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Ronja Rövardotter
* Honourable Mention:
   * Damiano Damiani for Pizza Connection
   * Les enfants
   * Tarık Akan for Pehlivan
* FIPRESCI Award
   * Tōkyō saiban by Masaki Kobayashi

## Literature

* Brigitte Tast: Als Farbe das Grau, als Format der Innenblick. 35. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1985, Schellerten 2014, ISBN 978-3-88842-045-0
