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27th edition

July 7 - 19, 1990

Awards

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
not conferred

Special Jury Price
Was It Us? / Byli jsme to my?
Director: Antonín Máša
Czechoslovakia

Best Director Award
Janusz Kijowski
for the film State of Fear / Stan strachu
Poland

Best Actress Award
Julie Jezequel, Clotilde de Bayser, Laura Marsac for the film Tumultes, dir. Bertrand Van Effenterre
France

Best Actor Award
Andrey Smirnov
for the film Chernov, dir. Sergey Yurskiy
USSR

26th edition

July 7 - 19, 1988

Awards

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Hibiscus Town / Fu-rong zhen
Director: Sie Jin
China

Main Prizes
Weeds
Director: John Hancock
USA

Tüske a köröm alatt
Director: Sándor Sára
Hungary

Special Jury Prize
Pathfinder / Veiviseren
Director: Nils Gaup
Norway

Best Actress Award
Corinna Harfouch
for the film The Actress / Die Schauspielerin, dir. Siegfried Kühn
East Germany

Best Actor Award
Les Serdyuk
for the film Straw Bells / Solomennye kolokola, dir. Yuri Ilyenko
USSR

25th edition

July 3 - 16, 1986

Awards

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
A Street to Die
Director: Bill Bennett
Australia

Grand Special Prize
Tanner / Der schwarze Tanner
Director: Xavier Koller
Switzerland

Main Prizes
Te amo
Director: Eduardo Calcagno
Argentina

A Good Woman / Liang jia fu nü
Director: Huang Jian-zhong
China

Thaw / Pomnalui nunsogi
Directors: Rim Chang-bom, Ko Hak-rim
North Korea

Best Actress Award
Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly for the film Agnes of God, dir. NormanJewison
USA

Best Actor Award
Leonid Filatov for the film Chicherin, dir. Aleksandr Zarchi
USSR

24th edition

July 6 - 18, 1984

Awards

Grand Prix
Lev Tolstoy
Director: Sergei Gerasimov
USSR/Czechoslovakia

Grand Special Prizes
End of the Lonely Farm Berhof / Zánik samoty Berhof
Director: Jiří Svoboda
Czechoslovakia/Poland

El mil usos
Director: Roberto G. Rivera
Mexico

Main Prizes
Strikebound
Director: Richard Lowenstein
Australia

A Strange Love / Eine sonderbare Liebe
Director: Lothar Warneke
East Germany

Runners
Director: Charles Sturridge
UK

Special Jury Mention
Sidney Lumet, director
USA

Best Actress Award
Susú Pecoraro
for the film Camila, dir. María Luisa Bemberg
Argentina

Marie Colbin
for the film No Time For Tears – The Bachmeier Case / Der Fall Bachmeier – Keine Zeit für Tränen, dir. Hark Bohm
West Germany

Best Actor Award
Agustín González
for the film Bicycles Are for the Summer / Las bicicletas son para el verano, dir. Jaime Chávarri
Spain

Om Puri
for the The Half Truth / Ardh satya, dir. Góvind Nihaláni
India

23rd edition

July 3 - 15, 1982

Awards

Grand Prix
Red Bells – Mexico on Fire / Campanas rojas
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Mexico/USSR

Grand Special Prize
The Assistant / Pomocník
Director: Zoroslav Záhon
Czechoslovakia

Main Prizes
Circus Casablanca
Director: Erik Clausen
Denmark

Allons z’enfants
Director: Yves Boisset
France

The Ascent / Arohan
Director: Shyam Benegal
India

Special Mention and Rose of Lidice Prize
The Warning / Preduprezhdenie
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem
Bulgaria/USSR

Best Acting Award
ensemble cast
for the film People from the Swamp / Lyudi na bolote, dir. Viktor Turov
USSR

Best Actress Award
Henry Fonda
for the film On Golden Pond, dir. Mark Rydell
USA

Donald Sutherland
for the film Threshold, dir. Richard Pearce
Canada

22nd edition

June 27 - July 10, 1980

Awards

Grand Prix
Fiancée / Die Verlobte
Directors: Günther Rücker, Günter Reisch
East Germany

Main Prizes
Married for the First Time / Vpervyye zamuzhem
Director: Iosif Chejfic
USSR

Johnny Larsen
Director: Morten Arnfred
Denmark

Iluzija
Director: Ludmil Staikov
Bulgaria

Special Jury Mentions
The Medal / Signum laudis
Director: Martin Hollý
Czechoslovakia

The Beads of a Rosary / Paciorki jednego różańca
Director: Kazimierz Kutz
Poland

Best Actress Award
Anda Onesa
for the film Anastasia Gently Passes / Duios Anastasia trecea, dir. Alexandru Tatos
Romania

Birgit Doll
for the film Tales from the Vienna Woods / Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald, dir. Maximilian Schell
Austria/West Germany

Best Actor Award
Al Pacino
for the film …And Justice for All, dir. Norman Jewison
USA

Uelese Petaia
for the film Sons for the Return Home, dir. Paul Maunder
New Zealand

21st edition

June 29 - July 12, 1978

Awards

Grand Prix
Shadows of a Hot Summer / Stíny horkého léta
Director: František Vláčil
Czechoslovakia

White Bim Black Ear / Belyy Bim Chyornoe ukho
Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy
USSR

Main Prizes
The Irishman
Director: Donald Crombie
Australia

It’s Rain and Shine Together / Veri az ördög a feleségét
Director: Ferenc András
Hungary

The Flight / Die Flucht
Director: Roland Gräf
East Germany

Oss
Director: Laila Mikkelsen
Norway

The Sailor’s Return
Director: Jack Gold
UK

Special Jury Mentions
The Marginal Ones / Oka Oori Katha
Director: Mrinal Sen
India

Autopsie d’un complot
Director: Mohamed Slim Riad
Algeria

Best Actress Award
Marisol
for the film The Days of the Past / Los días del pasado, dir. Mario Camus
Spain

Marie-José Nat
for the film Replay / Le passé simple, dir. Michel Drach
France

Best Actor Award
Giuliano Gemma
for the film The Iron Prefect / Il prefetto di ferro, dir. Pasquale Squitieri
Italy

Peter Faber
for the film Dokter Vlimmen, dir. Guido Pieters
Netherlands

20st edition

July 7 - 20, 1976

Awards

Grand Prix
Cantata de Chile
Director: Humberto Solás
Cuba

Main Prizes
Les Nomades
Director: Sid Ali Mazif
Algeria

One Silver Piece / Jeden stříbrný
Director: Jaroslav Balík
Czechoslovakia

The Middleman / Jana Aranya
Director: Satyajit Ray
India

Ech burdinj domog
Directors: Dshamjangijn Buntar, Jigjidsuren Gombojav
Mongolia

We’ll Be Seeing Us Again / Den hen lai len
Director: Tran Vu
Vietnam

Special Jury Mentions
Villa Zone / Vilna zona
Director: Eduard Zakhariev
Bulgaria

Xala
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Senegal

Best Actress Award
Karin Schröder for the film Man against Man / Mann gegen Mann, dir. Kurt Maetzig
East Germany

Hildegard Knef
for the film Everyone Dies Alone / Jeder stirbt für sich allein, dir. Alfred Vohrer
West Germany

Best Actor Award
Zygmunt Malanowicz
for the film Jarosław Dąbrowski, dir. Bohdan Poręba
Poland

Gheorghe Dinica
for the film Through the Ashes of the Empire / Prin cenuşa imperiului, dir. Andrei Blaier
Romania

19th edition

July 5 - 18, 1974

Awards

Grand Prix
Romance for Lovers / Romans o vlyublyonnykh
Director: Andrey Mikhalkov-Konchalovskiy
USSR

Main Prizes
A Brief Vacation / Una breve vacanza
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Italy

A Tree without Roots / Darvo bez koren
Director: Christo Christov
Bulgaria

You Have the Floor / Ustedes tienen la palabra
Director: Manuel Octavio Gómez
Cuba

Conrack
Director: Martin Ritt
USA

Special Jury Mentions
Dark River / Ciemna rzeka
Director: Sylwester Szyszko
Poland

Quebracho
Director: Ricardo Wullicher
Argentina

Best Director Award
Yves Allégret
for the film La meilleure part
France

Best Actress Award
Marta Vančurová for the film Lovers in the Year One / Milenci v roce jedna dir. Jaroslav Balík
Czechoslovakia

Best Actor Award
Antonio Ferrandis
for the film And the Others / ¿…Y el prójimo?, dir. Ángel del Pozo
Spain

18th edition

July 20 - August 1, 1972

Awards

Grand Prix
Taming of the Fire / Ukroshchenie ogna I, II
Director: Daniil Khrabrovitsky
USSR

Main Prizes
Quite Good Chaps / Dosť dobrí chlapi
Director: Jozef Režucha
Czechoslovakia

This Kind of Love / Questa specie d’amore
Director: Alberto Bevilacqua
Italy

Her Third / Der Dritte
Director: Egon Günther
East Germany

The Slip Up / Poślizg
Director: Jan Łomnicki
Poland

Special Jury Mention
The Goat Horn / Kozijat rog
Director: Metodi Andonov
Bulgaria

Best Actress Award
Mari Törőcsik
for the film Dead Landscape / Holt vidék, dir. István Gaál
Hungary

Best Actor Award
Randjit Malik
for the film Interview, dir. Mrinal Sen
India

17th edition

July 15 - 26, 1970

Awards

Grand Prix
Kes
Director: Ken Loach
UK

Main Prizes
By the Lake / U ozera
Director: Sergey Gerasimov
USSR

The Black Angels / Chernite angeli
Director: Vulo Radev
Bulgaria

Best Actress Award
Natalya Belokhvostikova
for the film By the Lake, dir. Sergey Gerasimov
USSR

Best Actor Award
Mathieu Carrière for the film The House of the Bories / La maison des Bories, dir. Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
France

16th edition

June 5 - 15, 1968

Awards

Grand Prix
Capricious Summer / Rozmarné léto
Director: Jiří Menzel
Czechoslovakia

Special Jury Mentions
The Sixth of July / Shestoye iyulya
Director: Yuli Karasik
USSR

Clowns on the Wall / Bohóc a falon
Director: Pál Sándor
Hungary

Best Actress Award
Carol White
for the film Poor Cow, dir. Ken Loach
UK

Best Actor Award
Nikolai Plotnikhov
for the film Your Contemporary / Tvoy sovremennik, dir. Juli Raizman
USSR

15th edition

July 6 - 19, 1966

Awards

Grand Prix
not conferred

First Main Prize
Three / Tri
Director: Aleksandar Petrović
Yugoslavia

Main Prizes Cold Days / Hideg napok
Director: András Kovács
Hungary

Coach to Vienna / Kočár do Vídně
Director: Karel Kachyňa
Czechoslovakia

Special Jury Mentions
Chateau Life / La vie de chambre
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
France

Death of a Bureaucrat / La muerte de un burócrata
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba

Best Actor Award
Naum Shopov
for the film Tsar and Genereal / Tsar i general, dir. Valo Radev
Bulgaria

Donatas Banionis
for the film Nobody Wanted to Die / Nikto ne khotel umirat, dir. Vytautas Žalakevičius
USSR

14th edition

July 4 - 19, 1964

Awards

Main Prizes
The Alive and the Dead / Zhivye i myortvye
Director: Aleksandr Stolper
USSR

Twisting / Sodrásban
Director: István Gaál
Hungary

Special Jury Mention
The Best Man
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
USA

Best Actress Award
Jeanne Moreau
for the film Diary of a Chambermaid / Le journal d’une femme de chambre, dir. Luis Buñuel
France

Best Actor Award
Wieńczysław Gliński
for the film Echo, dir. Stanisław Różewicz
Poland

13th edition

June 9 - 24, 1962

Awards

Grand Prix
Nine Days of One Year / 9 dney odnogo goda
Director: Mikhail Romm
USSR

Best Director Award
Tony Richardson
for the film A Taste of Honey
UK

Pier Paolo Pasolini
for the film Accattone
Italy

Best Actor Award
not conferred

12th edition

July 9 - 24, 1960

Awards

Grand Prix
Seryozha
Directors: Georgiy Danelyia, Igor Talankin
USSR

Main Prizes
Roses for the Prosecutor / Rosen für Staatsanwalt
Director: Wolfgang Staudte
West Germany

The Danube Waves / Valurile Dunarii
Director: Liviu Ciulei
Romania

Living Heroes / Zhyvye geroi
Directors: Marionas Gedris, Balis Bratkauskas, Arūnas Žebriūnas, Vytautas Žalakevičius
USSR

Special Jury Mentions
Roberto Rossellini, director, and Giovanna Ralli, actress
for the film Era notte a Roma
Italy

Best Actress Award
Mari Törőcsik
for the film Our Kid / Kölyök, dir. Mihály Szemes
Hungary

Best Actor Award
Laurence Olivier
for the film The Entertainer, dir. Tony Richardson
UK

Erwin Geschonneck
for the film Leute mit Flügel, dir. Konrad Wolf
East Germany

11th edition

July 12 - 27, 1958

Awards

Grand Prix
And Quiet Flows the Don Part III / Tikhiy Don
Director: Sergei Gerasimov
USSR

Stepbrothers / Ibo Kyoudai
Direcotr: Miyoji Ieki
Japan

Best Director Award
Robert Siodmak
for the film The Devil Strikes at Night / Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam
West Germany

Best Actor Award
Nargis for the film Mother India / Bhārat Mātā, dir. Mahbúb
India

Maksim Shtraukh
for the film Stories about Lenin / Rasskazy o Lenine, dir. Sergei Yutkevich
USSR

10th edition

July 6 - 21, 1957

Awards

Grand Prix
Stay Awake / Jagte Raho
Directors: Sombhu Mitra, Amit Maitra
India

Main Prizes
Professor Hannibal / Hannibál tanár úr
Director: Zoltán Fábri
Hungary

Vysota
Director: Aleksandr Zarchi
USSR

Lissy
Director: Konrad Wolf
East Germany

Best Director Award
Andrzej Munk
for the filmMan on the Tracks / Człowiek na torze
Poland

Vladimir Pogacic
for the film The Big and the Small / Veliki i mali
Yugoslavia

Best Actor Award
Cvetana Arnandova
for the film Urok na istorijata, dir. Lev Arnshtam
Bulgaria

collective acting prize
Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot
for the film Les sorcières de Salem, dir. Raymond Rouleau
France

9th edition

July 12 - 29, 1956

Awards

Grand Prix
If All the Guys in the World / Si tous les gars du monde…
Director: dir. Christian-Jaque
France

Special Jury Prizes
Abyss / Szakadék
Director: László Ranódy
Hungary

A Half Pint of Beer / Egy pikoló világos
Director: Félix Máriássy
Hungary

Best Director Award
Yves Allégret
for the film La meilleure part
France

Best Actress Award
Rufina Nifontova
for the film Volnitsa / Volnica, dir. Grigory Roshal
USSR

Best Actor Award
Günther Simon
for the film Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse, dir. Kurt Maetzig
East Germany

8th edition

July 11 - 25, 1954

Awards

Grand Prix
True Friends / Vernye druz´ya
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
USSR

Salt of the Earth
Direcotr: Herbert J. Biberman
USA

Best Actress Award
Rosaura Revueltas
for the film Salt of the Earth, dir. Herbert J. Biberman
Mexico

Best Actor Award
Charles Vanel
for the film L’affaire de Maurizius, dir. Julien Duvivier
France

7th edition

July 12 - August 3, 1952

Awards

Grand Prix
The Unforgettable Year 1919 / Nezabyvayemyi 1919-j god
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli
USSR

Best Director Award
Carlo Lizzani
for the film Achtung! Banditi!
Italy

Slatan Dudow
for the film Destinies of Women / Frauenschicksale
East Germany

Best Actress Award
Milka Tuykova
for the film Danka, dirs. Ivan Fichev, Boris Borozanov, Kiril Ilinchev
Bulgaria

Best Actor Award
Sergey Bondarchuk
for the film Taras Shevchenko, dir. Igor Savchenko
USSR

Pierre Fresnay
for the film Monsieur Fabre, dir. Henri Diamant-Berger
France

Jan Ciecierski
for the film First Days / Pierwsze dni, dir. Jan Rybkowski
Poland

6th edition

July 17 - 29, 1951

Awards

Grand Prix
Dream of a Cossack / Kavaler Zolotoy zvezdy
Director: Yuli Raizman
USSR

Best Director Award
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
for the film Sans laisser d’adresse
France

Best Actor Award
František Smolík
for the film New Fighter Shall Arise / Vstanou noví bojovníci, dir. Jiří Weiss
Czechoslovakia

Eduard von Winterstein
for the film Die Sonnenbrucks, dir. Georg C. Klaren
East Germany

5th edition

July 15 - 30, 1950

Awards

Grand Prix
The Fall of Berlin Parts I and II / Padeniye Berlina I & II
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli
USSR

Best Director Award
Vsevolod Pudovkin
for the film Zhukovsky
USSR

Best Actress Award
Shih Lian Sing
for the film Chao, dir. Sha Meng
China

4th edition

Mariánské Lázně / Karlovy Vary
July 23 - August 7, 1949

Awards

Grand Prix
The Battle of Stalingrad Parts I and II / Stalingradskaya bitva I, II
Director: Vladimir Petrov
USSR

Best Actor Award
Alexander Borisov
for the film Akademik Ivan Pavlov, dir. Grigory Roshal
USSR

3rd edition

Mariánské Lázně / Karlovy Vary
July 17 - August 2, 1948

Awards

Grand International Prize
The Last Stage / Ostatni etap
Director: Wanda Jakubowska
Poland

Best Director Award
William Wyler
for the film The Best Years of Our Lives
USA

Best Actor Award
Madeleine Robinson
for the film Les frères Bouquinquant, dir. Louis Daquin
France

2nd edition

Mariánské Lázně
August 2 - 17, 1947

noncompetitive

1st edition

Mariánské Lázně / Karlovy Vary
August 1 - 15, 1946

noncompetitive

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