1986 film festival edition
The 36th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held 14–25 February 1986.[2] The festival opened with Ginger and Fred by Federico Fellini, which played out of competition at the festival.[3] The Golden Bear was awarded to West German film Stammheim directed by Reinhard Hauff.[4] The retrospective was in honour of German actress and film producer Henny Porten and the homage was dedicated to American film director Fred Zinnemann.[5] Claude Lanzmann's 9 hour long documentary film Shoah about The Holocaust was screened at the Young Filmmakers Forum (renamed the International Forum of New Cinema in 1987).[2]
Jury
Gina Lollobrigida, Jury PresidentThe following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[6]
- Gina Lollobrigida, actress (Italy) - Jury President
- Rudi Fehr, editor (United Kingdom)
- Lindsay Anderson, director (United Kingdom)
- August Coppola, academic (United States)
- Werner Grassmann, producer, director and screenwriter (West Germany)
- Otar Iosseliani, director and screenwriter (Soviet Union)
- Norbert Kückelmann, director and screenwriter (West Germany)
- Françoise Maupin, journalist and film critic (France)
- Rosaura Revueltas, actress (Mexico)
- Naoki Togawa, writer and co-founder of Polska Szkoła Filmowa (Poland)
- Jerzy Toeplitz, film critic (Japan)
Films in competition
The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:[1]
Retrospective
The following films were shown in the retrospective in honour of Henny Porten:[7]
The following films were shown in the homage dedicated to Fred Zinnemann:[7]
The film Le Brasier ardent by Ivan Mosjoukine and Alexandre Volkoff was also shown in the retrospective as a tribute to the Cinémathèque Française for its 50th anniversary.
