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Location | West Berlin, Germany |
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Founded | 1951 |
Awards | Golden Bear: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz |
Festival date | 21 June – 2 July 1974 |
Website | Website |
The 24th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1974. [1]
The Golden Bear was awarded to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz directed by Ted Kotcheff. [2]
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: [3]
The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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A Handful of Love | En handfull kärlek | Vilgot Sjöman | Sweden |
The Amlash Enchanted Forest | העיר יער קסום | Shlomo Suriano | Israel |
Ankur | अंकुर | Shyam Benegal | India |
A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja | Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja | Krsto Papić | Yugoslavia |
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada | |
Black Thursday | Les Guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | France |
Boasting | من آنم که | Ali Akbar Sadeghi | Iran |
Bobby's War | Bobbys krig | Arnljot Berg | Norway |
Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | Franco Brusati | Italy |
Charley One-Eye | Don Chaffey | United Kingdom, United States | |
The Clockmaker | L'horloger de Saint-Paul | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
The Concert | Claude Chagrin | United Kingdom | |
The Conscript | De loteling | Roland Verhavert | Belgium |
The Earth Is a Sinful Song | Maa on syntinen laulu | Rauni Mollberg | Finland |
Effi Briest | Fontane Effi Briest | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
In the Name of the People | Im Namen des Volkes | Ottokar Runze | West Germany |
Little Malcolm | Stuart Cooper | United Kingdom | |
The Love of Captain Brando | El amor del capitán Brando | Jaime de Armiñán | Spain |
The Pelican | Le Pélican | Gérard Blain | France |
Rebellion in Patagonia | La Patagonia rebelde | Héctor Olivera | Argentina |
Rise, Fair Sun | 朝やけの詩 | Kei Kumai | Japan |
Sagarana: The Duel | Sagarana, o Duelo | Paulo Thiago | Brazil |
Sea Creatures | Robin Lehman | United Kingdom | |
Still Life | طبیعت بیجان | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Iran |
Straf | Olga Madsen | Netherlands | |
There Is No 13 | William Sachs | United States | |
Two | Charles Trieschmann | United States | |
Zeami | 世阿彌 | Susumu Harada | Japan |
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury: [2]
William Theodore Kotcheff is a Canadian director and producer of film and television. He is known for directing such films as the seminal Australian New Wave picture Wake in Fright (1971), the Mordechai Richler adaptations The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and Joshua Then and Now (1985), the original Rambo film First Blood (1982), and the comedies Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), North Dallas Forty (1979), and Weekend at Bernie's (1989).
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a 1974 Canadian comedy drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and adapted by Mordechai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd from Richler’s 1959 novel. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a brash young Jewish Montrealer who embarks on a string of get-rich-quick schemes in a bid to gain respect. The cast also features Micheline Lanctôt, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman, Denholm Elliott, Joe Silver and Jack Warden.
Sohrab Shaheed Salles or Sohrab Shahid-Saless was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century. After 1976 he worked in the cinema of Germany and was an important component of the film diaspora working in the German industry.
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