35th Berlin International Film Festival

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Location Berlin, Germany No. of films 326 films		Founded 1951 Festival date February 15–26, 1985

Awards Golden Bear (Die Frau und der Fremde and Wetherby) Website http://www.berlinale.de

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

Jury

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

Jean Marais (Head of the Jury)

Max von Sydow

Alberto Sordi

Regimantas Adomaitis

Sheila Benson

Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Onat Kutlar

Luis Megino

Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart

Chris Sievernich

István Szabó

Films in competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:

Retrospective

The following films were shown in the retrospective:

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

References

35th Berlin International Film Festival Wikipedia

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