24th Berlin International Film Festival
The 24th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June – 2 July 1974. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Canadian film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz directed by Ted Kotcheff.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:- Rodolfo Kuhn, director and screenwriter - Jury President
- Margaret Hinxmann, writer and film critic
- Pietro Bianchi, journalist and film critic
- Gérard Ducaux-Rupp, producer
- Kurt Heinz, composer
- Akira Iwasaki, historian and film critic
- Arthur Knight, historian and film critic
- Manfred Purzer, director and screenwriter
- Piet Ruivenkamp, film critic
Films in competition
English title | Original title | Director | Country |
The Seedling | अंकुर Ankur | Shyam Benegal | India |
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada | |
Rise, Fair Sun | 朝やけの詩 Asayake no uta | Kei Kumai | Japan |
Bobby's War | Bobbys krig | Arnljot Berg | Norway |
Charley One-Eye | Don Chaffey | United Kingdom, USA | |
The Concert | Claude Chagrin | United Kingdom | |
The Conscript | De loteling | Roland Verhavert | Belgium |
The Love of Captain Brando | El amor del capitán Brando | Jaime de Armiñán | Spain |
A Handful of Love | En handfull kärlek | Vilgot Sjöman | Sweden |
Effi Briest | Fontane – Effi Briest | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
The Amlash Enchanted Forest | העיר יער קסום Ha'Ya'ar Ha-Kasum | Shlomo Suriano | Israel |
In the Name of the People | Im Namen des Volkes | Ottokar Runze | West Germany |
The Clockmaker | L'horloger de Saint-Paul | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
Rebellion in Patagonia | La Patagonia rebelde | Héctor Olivera | Argentina |
The Pelican | Le Pélican | Gérard Blain | France |
Black Thursday | Les Guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | France |
Little Malcolm | Stuart Cooper | United Kingdom | |
The Earth Is a Sinful Song | Maa on syntinen laulu | Rauni Mollberg | Finland |
Boasting | من آنم که Man anam keh | Ali Akbar Sadeghi | Iran |
Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | Franco Brusati | Italy |
Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja | Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja | Krsto Papić | Yugoslavia |
Sagarana: The Duel | Paulo Thiago | Brazil | |
Sea Creatures | Robin Lehman | United Kingdom | |
Still Life | طبیعت بیجان Tabiate bijan | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Iran |
Straf | Olga Madsen | Netherlands | |
There Is No 13 | William Sachs | USA | |
Two | Charles Trieschmann | USA | |
Zeami | 世阿彌 Zeami | Susumu Harada | Japan |
Out of competition
- С тобой и без тебя S toboy i bez tebya, directed by Rodion Nahapetov
Key
Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:- Golden Bear: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Ted Kotcheff
- Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: L'horloger de Saint-Paul by Bertrand Tavernier
- Silver Bear:
- * Pane e cioccolata by Franco Brusati
- * Tabiate bijan by Sohrab Shahid-Saless
- * Little Malcolm by Stuart Cooper
- * Im Namen des Volkes by Ottokar Runze
- * La Patagonia rebelde by Héctor Olivera
- FIPRESCI Award
- *Still Life by Sohrab Shahid-Saless