40th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 40th annual Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...

was held from February 9 to 20, 1990.

Jury

  • Michael Ballhaus
    Michael Ballhaus
    Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. is a German cinematographer. In 1990, he was the Head of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.- Life and career :...

     (Head of the Jury)
  • Margaret Ménégoz
    Margaret Ménégoz
    Margaret Ménégoz is a German-French film producer. She has produced over 50 films since 1976. She was a member of the jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival...

     (Co-head of the Jury)
  • Vadim Abdrashitov
  • Suzana Amaral
    Suzana Amaral
    Suzana Amaral is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She had eight children when she entered film school. In 1976 she entered NYU to further her desire to make films....

  • Steven Bach
    Steven Bach
    Steven Bach was senior vice-president and head of worldwide productions for United Artists studios.In 1990, he was a member of the jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival....

  • Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...

  • Lívia Gyarmathy
    Lívia Gyarmathy
    Lívia Gyarmathy is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She has directed over 20 films since 1962. She was a member of the jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...

  • Helke Misselwitz
  • Otto Sander
    Otto Sander
    Otto Sander is a German film, theater, and voice actor.Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service as a navy reserve officer and then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his...

  • Stephen Silverman
  • Rita Tushingham
    Rita Tushingham
    -Career:Born in Liverpool, Tushingham began her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey...


Films in competition

  • ¡Átame!
    Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
    Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is a 1990 Spanish film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, a dark romantic comedy starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril. The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him...

    by Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...

  • Los ángeles by Jacob Berger
    Jacob Berger
    Jacob Berger is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. His 1990 film Angels was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.-Biography:Jacob Berger is of English and Swiss descent, born in Lydney, England, in 1963...

  • Astenicheskiy sindrom
    The Asthenic Syndrome
    The Asthenic Syndrome is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Kira Muratova. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.-Cast:* Olga Antonova as Natasha* Sergei Popov as Nikolai...

    by Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova is a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress. She was born in 1934 in Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania . She was born to a Romanian mother and a Russian father. Muratova is known for her unusual and original directorial style...

  • Black Snow
    Black Snow (film)
    Black Snow is a 1990 Chinese drama film directed by Xie Fei. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement.-Cast:* Cai Hongxiang as Cui Yongli...

    by Xie Fei
    Xie Fei (director)
    Xie Fei is a world-recognized Chinese film director. Xie was born in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province.A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, Xie has also taught at his alma mater as a vice-president of that institution.-Selected films:-External links:...

  • Born on the Fourth of July
    Born on the Fourth of July (film)
    Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also...

    by Oliver Stone
    Oliver Stone
    William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...

  • Coming Out by Heiner Carow
    Heiner Carow
    Heiner Carow was a German film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film So Many Dreams was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, he was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival...

  • Driving Miss Daisy
    Driving Miss Daisy
    Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film adapted from the Alfred Uhry play of the same name. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford, with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as Hoke Colburn and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy...

    by Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...

  • Shadow Makers
    Fat Man and Little Boy
    Fat Man and Little Boy is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The film is named after the nuclear weapons known by the code names "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". The code names can be taken for joking...

    by Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...

  • A halálraítélt
    Sentenced to Death (film)
    Sentenced to Death is a 1989 Hungarian drama film directed by János Zsombolyai. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Péter Malcsiner as Gergõ Ferenc* Barbara Hegyi as Payer Zsuzsa* István Bubik as Nagy Béla...

    by János Zsombolyai
    János Zsombolyai
    János Zsombolyai is a Hungarian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. His 1989 film Sentenced to Death was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Forbidden Ground...

  • The Handmaid's Tale
    The Handmaid's Tale (film)
    The Handmaid's Tale is a 1990 film adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff the film stars Natasha Richardson , Faye Dunaway , Robert Duvall , Aidan Quinn , and Elizabeth McGovern . The screenplay was written by Harold Pinter...

    by Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...

  • Herzlich willkommen
    Herzlich willkommen
    Herzlich willkommen is a 1990 German drama film directed by Hark Bohm. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Uwe Bohm as Friedrich Dombrowski* David Bohm as Fritz* Barbara Auer as Elke Kramer* Hark Bohm as Direktor Dr...

    by Hark Bohm
    Hark Bohm
    Hark Bohm is a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the island Amrum. His younger brother was the actor Marquard Bohm, who starred in some of his early films...

  • Karaul
    The Guard (1990 film)
    The Guard is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Alfred-Bauer Prize.-Cast:* Aleksey Buldakov as Paromov* Sergei Kupriyanov as Andrej Iveren...

    by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
    Aleksandr Rogozhkin
    -Selected filmography:In 1990, he directed Karaul, which won the Alfred-Bauer Prize at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.Rogozhkin's film The Chekist was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

  • Les noces de papier by Michel Brault
    Michel Brault
    Michel Brault, OQ is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s...

  • Music Box
    Music Box (film)
    Music Box is a 1989 film that tells the story of a Hungarian-American immigrant who is accused of having been a war criminal. The plot revolves around his daughter, an attorney, who defends him, and her struggle to uncover the truth....

    by Costa-Gavras
    Costa-Gavras
    Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...

  • Das schreckliche Mädchen by Michael Verhoeven
    Michael Verhoeven
    -Life and work:Verhoeven is the son of German film director, Paul Verhoeven . He married actress Senta Berger in 1966; their son is the actor-director Simon Verhoeven. Together, the couple formed a production company to make films...

  • Il segreto
    The Secret (1990 film)
    The Secret is a 1990 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Maselli. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Nastassja Kinski as Lucia* Stefano Dionisi as Carlo* Franco Citti as Franco* Chiara Caselli as Lilli...

    by Francesco Maselli
    Francesco Maselli
    Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 38 films since 1949...

  • Silent Scream
    Silent Scream (1990 film)
    Silent Scream is a 1990 biopic film about convicted murderer Larry Winters, in which Robert Carlyle made his film debut. It was directed by David Hayman.- Plot :...

    by David Hayman
    David Hayman
    David Hayman is a Scottish film and television actor and director, best known for his role as DCS Mike Walker in ITV drama Trial and Retribution. He also a prominent supporter of the SNP's call for Scottish independence....

  • Skřivánci na niti
    Larks on a String
    Larks on a String is a 1990 Czech film directed by Jiří Menzel. It tells the stories of various characters considered 'bourgeois' by the Czech government in the 1950s, and have been forced to work in a junkyard for the purposes of 're-education'. The movie was filmed in 1969, but was banned by...

    by Jiří Menzel
    Jirí Menzel
    Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...

  • Talvisota by Pekka Parikka
    Pekka Parikka
    Pekka Parikka was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. His 1989 film The Winter War was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...

  • La vengeance d'une femme by Jacques Doillon
    Jacques Doillon
    Jacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women...

  • The War of the Roses
    The War of the Roses (film)
    The War of the Roses is a 1989 American comedy film based upon the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler. It is a black comedy about a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect marriage. When their marriage begins to fall apart, material possessions become the center of an outrageous and...

    by Danny DeVito
    Danny DeVito
    Daniel Michael DeVito, Jr. , better known as Danny DeVito, is an American actor, comedian, director and producer. He first gained prominence for his portrayal of Louie De Palma on the ABC and NBC television series Taxi , for which he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.DeVito and his wife, Rhea Perlman,...


Awards

  • Golden Bear
    Golden Bear
    According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos species can reach masses of . The Grizzly Bear and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear....

    :
    • Music Box
      Music Box (film)
      Music Box is a 1989 film that tells the story of a Hungarian-American immigrant who is accused of having been a war criminal. The plot revolves around his daughter, an attorney, who defends him, and her struggle to uncover the truth....

      by Costa-Gavras
      Costa-Gavras
      Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...

    • Skřivánci na niti
      Larks on a String
      Larks on a String is a 1990 Czech film directed by Jiří Menzel. It tells the stories of various characters considered 'bourgeois' by the Czech government in the 1950s, and have been forced to work in a junkyard for the purposes of 're-education'. The movie was filmed in 1969, but was banned by...

      by Jiří Menzel
      Jirí Menzel
      Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...

  • Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize
    Jury Grand Prix
    The Jury Grand Prix is a Silver Bear award given by the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival to one of the feature films in competition...

    : Astenicheskiy sindrom
    The Asthenic Syndrome
    The Asthenic Syndrome is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Kira Muratova. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.-Cast:* Olga Antonova as Natasha* Sergei Popov as Nikolai...

    by Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova is a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress. She was born in 1934 in Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania . She was born to a Romanian mother and a Russian father. Muratova is known for her unusual and original directorial style...

  • Silver Bear for Best Director
    Silver Bear for Best Director
    The Silver Bear for Best Director is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for best achievement in direction.-Awards:-Repeated winners:*Mario Monicelli *Satyajit Ray *Carlos Saura -External links:*...

    : Michael Verhoeven
    Michael Verhoeven
    -Life and work:Verhoeven is the son of German film director, Paul Verhoeven . He married actress Senta Berger in 1966; their son is the actor-director Simon Verhoeven. Together, the couple formed a production company to make films...

     for Das schreckliche Mädchen
  • Silver Bear for Best Joint Performance: Jessica Tandy
    Jessica Tandy
    Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was an English-American stage and film actress.She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear. She also worked in British films...

     and Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...

  • Silver Bear for Best Actor
    Silver Bear for Best Actor
    The Silver Bear for Best Actor is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for achievement in performance by an actor.- Awards :- External links :*...

    : Iain Glen
    Iain Glen
    Iain Glen is a Scottish film and stage actor.Iain Glen was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and trained at RADA where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal. He was married to Susannah Harker from 1993 to 2004; they have one son, Finlay...

     for Silent Scream
    Silent Scream (1990 film)
    Silent Scream is a 1990 biopic film about convicted murderer Larry Winters, in which Robert Carlyle made his film debut. It was directed by David Hayman.- Plot :...

  • Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement: Black Snow
    Black Snow (film)
    Black Snow is a 1990 Chinese drama film directed by Xie Fei. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement.-Cast:* Cai Hongxiang as Cui Yongli...

    by Xie Fei
    Xie Fei (director)
    Xie Fei is a world-recognized Chinese film director. Xie was born in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province.A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, Xie has also taught at his alma mater as a vice-president of that institution.-Selected films:-External links:...

  • Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Coming Out
  • Alfred-Bauer Prize: Karaul
    The Guard (1990 film)
    The Guard is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Alfred-Bauer Prize.-Cast:* Aleksey Buldakov as Paromov* Sergei Kupriyanov as Andrej Iveren...


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