# 2nd Moscow International Film Festival

The 2nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 July 1961. The Grand Prix was shared between the Japanese film The Naked Island directed by Kaneto Shindo and the Soviet film Clear Skies directed by Grigori Chukhrai.

## Jury

* Sergei Yutkevich (USSR - President of the Jury)
* Chinghiz Aitmatov (USSR)
* Zoltán Várkonyi (Hungary)
* Luchino Visconti (Italy)
* Sergei Gerasimov (USSR)
* Karel Zeman (Czechoslovakia)
* Mehboob Khan (India)
* Joshua Logan (USA)
* Leon Moussinac (France)
* Roger Manwell (Great Britain)
* Francisco Piña (Mexico)
* Walieddin Youssef Samih (Egypt)
* Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
* Huang Guang (China)
* Michael Tschesno-Hell (East Germany)
* Liviu Ciulei (Romania)
* Borislav Sharaliev (Bulgaria)

## Films in competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Alba Regia | Alba Regia | Mihály Szemes | Hungary |
| Das Riesenrad | Das Riesenrad | Géza von Radványi | West Germany |
| Big Request Concert | Das große Wunschkonzert | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Austria |
| — | Det store varpet | Nils R. Müller | Norway |
| Warriors for Freedom | Pedjuang | Usmar Ismail | Indonesia |
| William Tell | Wilhelm Tell | Michel Dikoff | Switzerland |
| Sunrise at Campobello | — | Vincent J. Donehue | United States |
| The Children of Bullerbyn Village | Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn | Olle Hellbom | Sweden |
| Everybody Go Home | Tutti a casa | Luigi Comencini | Italy, France |
| The Naked Island | Hadaka no shima | Kaneto Shindo | Japan |
| Thirst | Setea | Mircea Drăgan | Romania |
| Enclosure | L'Enclos | Armand Gatti | France, Yugoslavia |
| We Were Young | A byahme mladi | Binka Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria |
| Kukuli | Kukuli | Luis Figueroa, Eulogio Nishiyama, Cesar Villanueva | Peru |
| Kurulubedda | Kurulubedda | L. S. Ramachandran | Ceylon |
| Chaudhvin Ka Chand | Chaudhvin Ka Chand | Mohammed Sadiq | India |
| To My Father in Ulan Bator | Ulaan-Baatart baygaa miniy aavd | Dejidiin Jigjid | Mongolia |
| The Beginning and the End | بداية ونهاية | Salah Abu Seif | Egypt |
| — | Nebeski odred | Bosko Boskovic, Ilija Nikolic | Yugoslavia |
| The Fire on the Second Line | Lửa Trung Tuyến | Phạm Văn Khoa | North Vietnam |
| The Last Winter | Den sidste vinter | Frank Dunlop, Anker Sørensen, Edvin Tiemroth | Denmark, West Germany |
| The Haunted Castle | Das Spukschloß im Spessart | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany |
| Professor Mamlock | Professor Mamlock | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| The Trials of Oscar Wilde | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Ken Hughes | United Kingdom |
| Stories of the Revolution | Historias de la revolución | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| Tumangan River | Tumangan River | Chen San In | North Korea |
| Tonight a City Will Die | Dziś w nocy umrze miasto | Jan Rybkowski | Poland |
| A Revolutionary Family | Geming jiating | Shui Hua | China |
| — | Skandaali tyttökoulussa | Edvin Laine | Finland |
| Juana Gallo | Juana Gallo | Miguel Zacarías | Mexico |
| Fetters | Pouta | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovakia |
| Clear Skies | Chistoe nebo | Grigori Chukhrai | Soviet Union |
| This Earth Is Mine | Esta tierra es mía | Hugo del Carril | Argentina |

## Awards

* Grand Prix:
** The Naked Island by Kaneto Shindo
** Clear Skies by Grigori Chukhrai
* Special Golden Prize: Everybody Go Home by Luigi Comencini
* Golden Prizes:
** Professor Mamlock by Konrad Wolf
** We Were Young by Binka Zhelyazkova
* Silver Prizes:
** Alba Regia by Mihály Szemes
** Thirst by Mircea Drăgan
** The Haunted Castle by Kurt Hoffmann
** Director: Armand Gatti for Enclosure
** Actor: Peter Finch for The Trials of Oscar Wilde
** Actor: Bambang Hermanto for Warriors for Freedom
** Actress: Yu Lan for A Revolutionary Family
** Director of photography: Boguslaw Lambach for Tonight a City Will Die
** Decorator Bill Constable and costume designer Terence Morgan for The Trials of Oscar Wilde