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1985 film festival edition
The 35th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1985. The Golden Bear was awarded to East German film Die Frau und der Fremde directed by Rainer Simon and British film Wetherby directed by David Hare . The retrospective was dedicated to Special effects .
Jury
Jean Marais , Jury President
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
Jean Marais , actor (France) - Jury President
Max von Sydow , actor (Sweden)
Alberto Sordi , actor, screenwriter and director (Italy)
Regimantas Adomaitis , actor (Soviet Union)
Sheila Benson , journalist and film critic (United States)
Wolfgang Kohlhaase , writer (East Germany)
Onat Kutlar , poet, essayist and screenwriter (Turkey)
Luis Megino, writer and producer (Spain)
Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, head of the Goethe-Institut of New York (West Germany)
Chris Sievernich [de ] , producer (West Germany)
István Szabó , director and screenwriter (Hungary)
Films in competition
The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear :
Out of competition
Key
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Winner of the main award for best film in its section
Retrospective
1985 Retrospective poster, dedicated to special effects
The following films were shown in the retrospective "Special Effects":
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Country
20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Richard Fleischer
USA
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
George Pal
USA
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Charles Lamont
USA
Air Mail
Air Mail
John Ford
USA
Alien
Alien
Ridley Scott
USA, United Kingdom
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Baron Prášil
Karel Zeman
Czechoslovakia
Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit
David Lean
United Kingdom
Captain Sindbad
Captain Sindbad
Byron Haskin
USA, West Germany
Journey to the Beginning of Time
Cesta do praveku
Karel Zeman
Czechoslovakia
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
USA
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg
USA
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Robert Stevenson
USA
Das Boot
Wolfgang Petersen
West Germany
Heart of Stone
Das kalte Herz
Paul Verhoeven
East Germany
The Haunted Castle
Das Spukschloß im Spessart
Kurt Hoffmann
West Germany
The Student of Prague
Der Student von Prag
Stellan Rye
Germany
Destination Moon
Destination Moon
Irving Pichel
USA
Eraserhead
Eraserhead
David Lynch
USA
Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet
Fred McLeod Wilcox
USA
Georges Méliès – short films from the years 1896 to 1912
Georges Méliès
France
Godzilla
ゴジラ
Ishirō Honda
Japan
Hardware Wars
Hardware Wars
Ernie Fosselius
USA
Again and Again, Good Luck
Immer wieder Glück
Ferdinand Diehl
West Germany
Invisible Agent
Invisible Agent
Edwin L. Marin
USA
Island of Lost Souls
Island of Lost Souls
Erle C. Kenton
USA
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Stanley Kramer
USA
Jason and the Argonauts
Jason and the Argonauts
Don Chaffey
USA, United Kingdom
Beauty and the Beast
La Belle et la Bête
Jean Cocteau
France
End of the World
La fin du monde
Abel Gance
France
Testament of Orpheus
Le testament d'Orphée
Jean Cocteau
France
Marry Poppins
Mary Poppins
Robert Stevenson
USA
Metropolis
Metropolis
Fritz Lang
Germany
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Münchhausen
Josef von Báky
Germany
The New Gulliver
Новый Гулливер
Aleksandr Ptushko
Soviet Union
Operation Undersea
Winston Hibler and Hamilton Luske
USA
Orpheus
Orphée
Jean Cocteau
France
Poltergeist
Poltergeist
Tobe Hooper
USA
Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion
Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion
Theo Mezger
West Germany
San Francisco
San Francisco
W. S. Van Dyke
USA
Serials: Flying heroes and smoking spaceships (includes Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe )
Serials: Fliegende Helden und qualmende Raumschiffe
Ford Beebe , Ray Taylor and others
USA
Silent Running
Silent Running
Douglas Trumbull
USA
The Golden Key
Zolotoy Klyuchik
Aleksandr Ptushko
Soviet Union
Star Wars
Star Wars
George Lucas
USA, United Kingdom
Sylvia and the Ghost
Sylvie et le fantôme
Claude Autant-Lara
France
Synthetischer Film
Helmut Herbst
West Germany
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Nathan H. Juran
USA
The Birds
The Birds
Alfred Hitchcock
USA
The Devil-Doll
The Devil-Doll
Tod Browning
USA
The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back
Irvin Kershner
USA
The Exorcist
The Exorcist
William Friedkin
USA
The Haunting
The Haunting
Robert Wise
United Kingdom
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Jack Arnold
USA
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Joel Schumacher
USA
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
James Whale
USA
The Invisible Man Returns
The Invisible Man Returns
Joe May
USA
The Invisible Woman
The Invisible Woman
Edward Sutherland
USA
The Lost World
The Lost World
Harry O. Hoyt
USA
The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island
Lucien Hubbard , Maurice Tourneur and Benjamin Christensen
USA
The Son of Kong
The Son of Kong
Ernest B. Schoedsack
USA
The War Of The Worlds
The War of the Worlds
Byron Haskin
USA
The Wizard Of Oz
The Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming
USA
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Henry Levin and George Pal
USA
Things to Come
Things to Come
William Cameron Menzies
United Kingdom
This Island Earth
This Island Earth
Joseph Newman and Jack Arnold
USA
Tommy
Tommy
Ken Russell
United Kingdom
Topper Returns
Topper Returns
Roy Del Ruth
USA
Man with a Movie Camera
Человек с киноаппаратом
Dziga Vertov
Soviet Union
Universe
Universe
Colin Low and Roman Kroitor
Canada
Magic Seed
Волшебное зерно Volshebnoye zerno
Fyodor Filippov and Valentin Kadochnikov
Soviet Union
Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
Literature
Brigitte Tast: Als Farbe das Grau, als Format der Innenblick. 35. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1985 , Schellerten 2014, ISBN 978-3-88842-045-0
References
External links
Awards
Main competition Other awards Retired awards Independent awards
By year