1959 ensured Sophia Loren and her husband, producer Carlo Ponti, for glamor.
Only Marilyn Monroe was never there. Otherwise, however, were in the
past 60 years almost all major movie stars on the red carpet of the
Berlinale.
The Italian rivals Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida were detected
in the Berlin International Film Festival for the only time shooting
together. Gary Cooper railed against the Communist hunt of the U.S.
Senator McCarthy. Jayne Mansfield created a stir with permissive
necklines. Jean Gabin was protected by police before stormy fans.
"Screaming Alarm" it was already time for performances of Romy
Schneider, Maria Schell, Cary Grant or James Stewart.
Julia Roberts in 1990 stood hand in hand with an East German People's
Police on the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate. Jack Nicholson at the
Berlinale press conference praising his bootylicious butt. Catherine
Deneuve also retained in the brightly lit hall always adamant on her
big sunglasses. George Clooney, Richard Gere and Dustin Hoffman used
the festival to sharp criticism of George W. Bush 's war in Iraq to
practice. Madonna and the Rolling Stones came for the music at the
Berlin Film Festival. And to throw a look at Leonardo DiCaprio and
Indian Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, are also at the Berlinale
anniversary of 11 to 21 February endure again movie fans spend hours
in the cold.
Berlinale as a "showcase of the West"
The Berlinale has no beach as the film festival in Cannes, and no
lagoon like the Venice Film Festival - attracts the competition for
the Golden Bears and around 400 Berlinale films, yet every time nearly
half a million visitors in the cinemas of the wintry German capital.
Founded in 1951 Berlinale was initially intended as a distraction from
the war-torn Berlin and blockade. But politics interfered with from
the beginning. The festival co-organized by the American allies should
be a "politically important cultural showcase event of the Western
film to the East."
"One week, after the founding of the Berlinale in West Berlin there is
a communist variant in East Berlin: the Festival of the Democratic
People's film, which is then fairly quickly disappeared into
oblivion," said the current Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick the dpa
conversation. The East-West conflict and the debate over the Vietnam
War resulted in the Cold War to scandals. 1970 saw Michael Verhoeven's
Vietnam-parable "ok" for riot. Because the film for them "un-American"
was, the jury retired, the competition was canceled. 1979 traveled
from the Eastern Bloc countries in protest. Due to the American
Vietnam War movie was "The Deer Hunter - The Deer Hunter" with Robert
De Niro.
More than glitz and glamor - Policy on the red carpet
In 1974 the first Soviet film was shown: Rodion Nachapetows "With you
and without you." A year later, involved the GDR and sent Frank
Beyer's "Jakob the Liar" in the competition. Many works written
Berlinale film history. Including winning a Golden Bear works "The
Wages of Fear" by Henri Georges Clouzot, "Veronika Voss" by Rainer
Werner Fassbinder, "Twelve Angry Men" by Sidney Lumet, "Alphaville" by
Jean-Luc Godard " Wild Strawberries "by Ingmar Bergman. The Berlinale
was the first major festival, which gave an Asian director the grand
prize. Zhang Yimou from China in 1988 for "Red Sorghum" the Golden
Bear.
That not just glitz and glamor are the Berlinale proved under the
direction of Kosslick. "After the 11th September 2001 were in a lot of
actors at the Berlinale against the Gulf War. In 2003, the Golden Bear
went to Michael Winterbottom's "In This World" on Afghanistan, "says
the festival director. "On the red carpet Berlinale were three former
Guantanamo prisoners, and we have Errol Morris' documentary" Standard
Operating Procedure "about the torture at Abu Ghraib prison and George
Clooney's political thriller" Syriana "was shown."
German filmmaker again regulars at Berlinale
Kosslick, who directs the Berlinale in 2001, brought the German
filmmaker returns to the festival, which for many years been driven by
the dominance of Hollywood were. "In 2002, the first four German films
in competition. It was normal that German films are well represented
there. "With Oskar Roehler, Benjamin Heisenberg and Burhan Qurbani
again in 2010 three German students compete for the Golden Bears.
A star director would like to welcome Kosslick way for once at the
festival: "I would love crazy, if someone would come, which was
represented 18 times already in his films at the Berlinale, and thus
by far holds the record: Master Jean -Luc Godard. "
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