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Berlin International Film Festival · 2014

Berlin International Film Festival 2014

Retrospective

Programme

6 films · 3 reviews

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari)

Review preview for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Meticulously planned and executed, it pioneers a number of important cinematic techniques.

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
A silent classic exploring madness, hypnotism and the boundaries of reality.

(Country: Germany; Year: 1920; Director: Robert Wiene; Writer: Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz; Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Hans Lanser-Rudolf, Henri Peters-Arnolds, Ludwig Rex, Elsa Wagner)

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World premiere of the restored version in 4K DCP

Caravaggio

The life of the painter.

(Country: UK; Year: 1986; Director: Derek Jarman; Writer: Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Nicholas Ward Jackson, Derek Jarman; Stars: Noam Almaz, Dawn Archibald, Sean Bean, Jack Birkett, Sadie Corre, Una Brandon-Jones, Imogen Claire, Robbie Coltrane, Garry Cooper, Lol Coxhill, Nigel Davenport, Vernon Dobtcheff, Terry Downes, Dexter Fletcher, Michael Gough)

World premiere in 2K (remastered)

Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter)

Story of a couple who marry on the day before war breaks out.

(Country: West Germany; Year: 1980; Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms; Writer: Helma Sanders-Brahms; Stars: Hanne Hiob, Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas, Rainer Friedrichsen, Gisela Stein, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Anna Sanders, Sonja Lauer, Miriam Lauer, Gabriele John, Johanna Karl-Lory, Ursula Ludwig, Lisa Örter)

World premiere of the restored version in 2K DCP

The Hero

A Bengali film star re-evaluates his success.

(Country: India; Year: 1966; Director: Satyajit Ray; Writer: Satyajit Ray, Satyajit Ray; Stars: Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen, Somen Bose, Nirmal Ghosh, Premangshu Bose, Sumita Sanyal, Ranjit Sen, Bharati Devi, Lali Chowdhury, Kamu Mukherjee, Susmita Mukherjee, Subrata Sensharma, Jamuna Sinha, Hiralal)

International premiere in 2K DCP

Late Autumn (Akibiyori)

A widow tries to persuade her daughter to wed, even though it means she will be left alone. Re-released in cinemas in 2010.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1960; Director: Yasujiro Ozu; Writer: Ton Satomi, Kôgo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu; Stars: Setsuko Hara, Keiji Sada, Yôko Tsukasa, Shima Iwashita, Ryuji Kita, Shinichirô Mikami, Nobuo Nakamura, Shin Saburi, Miyuki Kuwano, Kuniko Miyake, Sadako Sawamura, Fumio Watanabe, Ayako Senno, Yuriko Tashiro, Noriko Maki, Toyoko Takahashi)

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Restored international premiere in 2K DCP

Rebel Without A Cause

Review preview for Rebel Without A Cause

Unlike many examples of cinema from an earlier generation, Rebel Without A Cause is dynamic edge-of-the-seat viewing many years on.

Chris · 4.5 out of 5
The film which invented the teenager and introduced the world to James Dean.

(Country: US; Year: 1955; Director: Nicholas Ray; Writer: Irving Shulman and Stewart Stern, based on a story by Nicholas Ray.; Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Dennis Hopper)

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International premiere in 4K DCP