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2nd Moscow International Film Festival
Film festival
Film festival
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 2nd Moscow International Film Festival |
| location | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| founded | 1959 |
| awards | Grand Prix |
| 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.
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)
- Léon Moussinac (France)
- Roger Manvell (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:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| *Alba Regia* | *Alba Regia* | Mihály Szemes | Hungary |
| *Das Riesenrad* | *Das Riesenrad* | Géza von Radványi | West Germany |
| *Big Request Concert* | *Das große Wunschkonzert* | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Austria |
| *Det store varpet* | Nils R. Müller | Norway | |
| *Warriors for Freedom* | *Pedjuang* | Usmar Ismail | Indonesia |
| *William Tell* | *Wilhelm Tell* | Michel Dikoff | Switzerland |
| *Sunrise at Campobello* | Vincent J. Donehue | United States | |
| *The Children of Bullerbyn Village* | *Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn* | Olle Hellbom | Sweden |
| *Everybody Go Home* | *Tutti a casa* | Luigi Comencini | Italy, France |
| ***The Naked Island*** | ***Hadaka no shima*** | Kaneto Shindo | Japan |
| *Thirst* | *Setea* | Mircea Drăgan | Romania |
| *Enclosure* | *L'Enclos* | Armand Gatti | France, Yugoslavia |
| *We Were Young* | *A byahme mladi* | Binka Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria |
| *Kukuli* | *Kukuli* | Luis Figueroa, Eulogio Nishiyama, Cesar Villanueva | Peru |
| *Kurulubedda* | *Kurulubedda* | L. S. Ramachandran | Ceylon |
| *Chaudhvin Ka Chand* | *Chaudhvin Ka Chand* | Mohammed Sadiq | India |
| *To My Father in Ulan Bator* | *Ulaan-Baatart baygaa miniy aavd* | Dejidiin Jigjid | Mongolia |
| *The Beginning and the End* | *بداية ونهاية* | Salah Abu Seif | Egypt |
| *Nebeski odred* | Bosko Boskovic, Ilija Nikolic | Yugoslavia | |
| *The Fire on the Second Line* | *Lửa Trung Tuyến* | Phạm Văn Khoa | North Vietnam |
| *The Last Winter* | *Den sidste vinter* | Frank Dunlop, Anker Sørensen, Edvin Tiemroth | Denmark, West Germany |
| *The Haunted Castle* | *Das Spukschloß im Spessart* | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany |
| *Professor Mamlock* | *Professor Mamlock* | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| *The Trials of Oscar Wilde* | *The Trials of Oscar Wilde* | Ken Hughes | United Kingdom |
| *Stories of the Revolution* | *Historias de la revolución* | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| *Tumangan River* | *Tumangan River* | Chen San In | North Korea |
| *Tonight a City Will Die* | *Dziś w nocy umrze miasto* | Jan Rybkowski | Poland |
| *A Revolutionary Family* | *Geming jiating* | Shui Hua | China |
| *Skandaali tyttökoulussa* | Edvin Laine | Finland | |
| *Juana Gallo* | *Juana Gallo* | Miguel Zacarías | Mexico |
| *Fetters* | *Pouta* | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovakia |
| ***Clear Skies*** | ***Chistoe nebo*** | Grigori Chukhrai | Soviet Union |
| *This Earth Is Mine* | *Esta tierra es mía* | Hugo del Carril | Argentina |
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
References
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