2nd Moscow International Film Festival
Appearance
Location | Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Founded | 1959 |
Awards | Grand Prix |
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.[1] 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]The following films were selected for the main competition:
Awards
[edit]- Grand Prix:
- Special Golden Prize: Everybody Go Home by Luigi Comencini
- Golden Prizes:
- 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
[edit]- ^ "2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2012.