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Berlin International Film Festival · 2023

Berlin International Film Festival 2023

Berlinale Classics

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8 films · 1 review

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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

A liberal, white couple must examine their real values when their daughter brings home her Black fiancé.

(Country: US; Year: 1967; Director: Stanley Kramer; Stars: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway)

Mapantsula

Widely considered the first true anti-apartheid film to come out of South Africa. A story about a small-time gangster.

(Country: South Africa, Australia, UK; Year: 1988; Director: Oliver Schmitz; Stars: Thomas Mogotlane, Marcel Van Heerdan, Thembi Mtshali, Dolly Rathebe, Peter Sephuma)

Naked Lunch

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Jim Isaacs's creatures are remarkable, as is the film - unique, disturbing, wicked.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
An addict writer descends into a hallucinatory existence after accidentally killing his wife.

(Country: UK, Canada; Year: 1991; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg, based on the novel by William Burroughs; Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A Silverman, Joseph Scorsiani)

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Romeo And Juliet In The Village

Swiss rural adaptation of the classic.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 1941; Director: Valérien Schmidely, Hans Trommer; Stars: Margrit Winter, Erwin Kohlund, Emil Gyr, Johannes Steiner, Walburga Gmür)

Sweet Dreams

A director is faced with a host of problems while shooting his new film, all caused by his neurotic personality.

(Country: Italy; Year: 1981; Director: Nanni Moretti; Stars: Nanni Moretti, Dario Cantarelli, Nicola Di Pinto, Alessandro Haber, Laura Morante)

Twilight

A policeman becomes obsessed with solving the mystery of a serial killer.

(Country: Hungary; Year: 1990; Director: György Fehér; Writer: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, György Fehér; Stars: Péter Haumann, János Derzsi, Judit Pogány, Kati Lázár, István Lénárt, Gyula Pauer, Miklós Székely B., László Németh, István Fogarasi, Pál Hetényi, Zsuzsa Erdõsi, József Pethõ, Erzsébet Nagy, Mónika Varga)

Undercurrent

An artistically and commercially successful kimono designer begins an affair with a married man. But when his wife dies, her reaction is not as expected.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1956; Director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura; Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Uehara, Keizō Kawasaki, Michiko Ai, Kazuko Ichikawa)

A Woman Of Paris

High society drama about two lovers separated by fate.

(Country: US; Year: 1923; Director: Charles Chaplin; Stars: Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K French)