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2nd Moscow International Film Festival

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Location
  
Moscow, USSR

Awards
  
Grand Prix

Founded
  
1959

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. 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.

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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)
  • Leon Moussinac (France)
  • Roger Manwell (Great Britain)
  • Francisco Piña (Mexico)
  • Walieddin Youssef Samih (Egypt)
  • Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
  • Huang Guang (China)
  • Michael Tschesno-Hell (East Germany)
  • Liviu Ciulei (Romania)
  • Borislav Sharaliev (Bulgaria)

    • Films in competition

    The following films were selected for the main competition:

    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:
  • Professor Mamlock by Konrad Wolf
  • We Were Young by Binka Zhelyazkova
  • 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: Bambang Hermanto for Warriors for Freedom
  • Actress: Yu Lan for A Revolutionary Family
  • Director of photography: Boguslaw Lambach 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 Wikipedia
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