# 35th Berlin International Film Festival

The 35th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1985. The retrospective was dedicated to Special effects.
The Golden Bear was jointly awarded awarded to The Woman and the Strangler directed by Rainer Simon and Wetherby directed by David Hare.

## Juries

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
* Jean Marais, French actor - Jury President
* Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
* Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and filmmaker
* Regimantas Adomaitis, Soviet actor
* Sheila Benson, American journalist and film critic
* Wolfgang Kohlhaase, East German writer
* Onat Kutlar, Turkish poet, essayist and screenwriter
* Luis Megino, Spanish writer and producer
* Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, West-German head of the Goethe-Institut of New York
* Chris Sievernich [de], West-German producer
* István Szabó, Hungarian filmmaker

## Official Sections
### Main Competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 1919 | 1919 | Hugh Brody | United Kingdom |
| After Darkness | After Darkness | Sergio Guerraz, Dominique Othenin-Girard | Switzerland |
| The Children | Les enfants | Marguerite Duras, Jean Mascolo, Jean-Marc Turine | France |
| Count to Ten | Contar hasta diez | Oscar Barney Finn | Argentina |
| Daengbyeot | Daengbyeot | Hah Myung-joong | South Korea |
| Death in a French Garden | Péril en la demeure | Michel Deville | France |
| The Death of the White Stallion | Der Tod des weißen Pferdes | Christian Ziewer | West Germany |
| The Descendant of the Snow Leopard | Ак илбирстин тукуму | Tolomush Okeyev | Soviet Union |
| Flowers of Reverie | Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk | László Lugossy | Hungary |
| Heartbreakers | Heartbreakers | Bobby Roth | United States |
| Hail Mary | Je vous salue, Marie | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| Loafing and Camouflage | Λούφα και Παραλλαγή | Nikos Perakis | Greece |
| Morenga | Morenga | Egon Günther | West Germany |
| Mrs. Soffel | Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | United States |
| The Night of the Emerald Moon | Noc smaragdového měsíce | Václav Matějka | Czechoslovakia |
| Pehlivan | Pehlivan | Zeki Ökten | Turkey |
| Pizza Connection | Pizza Connection | Damiano Damiani | Italy |
| Places in the Heart | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton | United States |
| The Practice of Love | Die Praxis der Liebe | Valie Export | West Germany |
| Ronia, the Robber's Daughter | Ronja Rövardotter | Tage Danielsson | Sweden |
| Seburi Monogatari | 瀬降り物語 | Sadao Nakajima | Japan |
| Stico | Stico | Jaime de Armiñán | Spain |
| Wetherby | Wetherby | David Hare | United Kingdom |
| The Woman and the Stranger | Die Frau und der Fremde | Rainer Simon | East Germany |
| Wrong World | Wrong World | Ian Pringle | Australia |

### Out of competition

* 2010: The Year We Make Contact, directed by Peter Hyams (United States)
* Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam (United Kingdom)
* Country, directed by Richard Pearce (United States)
* Grünstein's Clever Move [de], directed by Bernhard Wicki (West Germany)
* Niemanns Zeit – Ein deutscher Heimatfilm, directed by Horst Kurnitzky and Marion Schmid (West Germany)
* International Military Tribunal for the Far East, directed by Masaki Kobayashi (Japan)
* Yamaha yudang, directed by Liang Zhang (China)

### Retrospective

The following films were shown in the retrospective "Special Effects":
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea | 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | George Pal | United States |
| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan H. Juran | United States |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Charles Lamont | United States |
| Münchhausen | Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | Germany |
| Again and Again, Good Luck | Immer wieder Glück | Ferdinand Diehl | West Germany |
| Air Mail | Air Mail | John Ford | United States |
| Alien | Alien | Ridley Scott | United States, United Kingdom |
| Beauty and the Beast | La Belle et la Bête | Jean Cocteau | France |
| The Birds | The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| Blithe Spirit | Blithe Spirit | David Lean | United Kingdom |
| Captain Sindbad | Captain Sindbad | Byron Haskin | United States, West Germany |
| Citizen Kane | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | United States |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Robert Stevenson | United States |
| Das Boot | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany |
| Destination Moon | Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | United States |
| The Devil-Doll | The Devil-Doll | Tod Browning | United States |
| The Empire Strikes Back | The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | United States |
| End of the World | La fin du monde | Abel Gance | France |
| Eraserhead | Eraserhead | David Lynch | United States |
| The Exorcist | The Exorcist | William Friedkin | United States |
| The Fabulous Baron Munchausen | Baron Prášil | Karel Zeman | Czechoslovakia |
| Forbidden Planet | Forbidden Planet | Fred McLeod Wilcox | United States |
| Georges Méliès – short films from the years 1896 to 1912 | Georges Méliès – short films from the years 1896 to 1912 | Georges Méliès | France |
| Godzilla | ゴジラ | Ishirō Honda | Japan |
| The Golden Key | Zolotoy Klyuchik | Aleksandr Ptushko | Soviet Union |
| Hardware Wars | Hardware Wars | Ernie Fosselius | United States |
| The Haunting | The Haunting | Robert Wise | United Kingdom |
| Heart of Stone | Das kalte Herz | Paul Verhoeven | East Germany |
| The Haunted Castle | Das Spukschloß im Spessart | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man | The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | United States |
| The Incredible Shrinking Woman | The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Joel Schumacher | United States |
| The Invisible Man | The Invisible Man | James Whale | United States |
| The Invisible Man Returns | The Invisible Man Returns | Joe May | United States |
| The Invisible Woman | The Invisible Woman | Edward Sutherland | United States |
| Invisible Agent | Invisible Agent | Edwin L. Marin | United States |
| Island of Lost Souls | Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | United States |
| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| Jason and the Argonauts | Jason and the Argonauts | Don Chaffey | United States, United Kingdom |
| Journey to the Beginning of Time | Cesta do praveku | Karel Zeman | Czechoslovakia |
| The Lost World | The Lost World | Harry O. Hoyt | United States |
| Magic Seed | Волшебное зерно | Fyodor Filippov and Valentin Kadochnikov | Soviet Union |
| Man with a Movie Camera | Человек с киноаппаратом | Dziga Vertov | Soviet Union |
| Marry Poppins | Marry Poppins | Robert Stevenson | United States |
| Metropolis | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | Germany |
| The Mysterious Island | The Mysterious Island | Lucien Hubbard, Maurice Tourneur and Benjamin Christensen | United States |
| The New Gulliver | Новый Гулливер | Aleksandr Ptushko | Soviet Union |
| Operation Undersea | Operation Undersea | Winston Hibler and Hamilton Luske | United States |
| Orpheus | Orphée | Jean Cocteau | France |
| Poltergeist | Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | United States |
| San Francisco | San Francisco | W. S. Van Dyke | United States |
| Serials: Flying heroes and smoking spaceships (includes Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) | Serials: Fliegende Helden und qualmende Raumschiffe | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor and others | United States |
| Silent Running | Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull | United States |
| The Son of Kong | The Son of Kong | Ernest B. Schoedsack | United States |
| Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion | Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion | Theo Mezger | West Germany |
| Star Wars | Star Wars | George Lucas | United States, United Kingdom |
| The Student of Prague | Der Student von Prag | Stellan Rye | Germany |
| Sylvia and the Ghost | Sylvie et le fantôme | Claude Autant-Lara | France |
| Synthetischer Film | Synthetischer Film | Helmut Herbst | West Germany |
| Testament of Orpheus | Le testament d'Orphée | Jean Cocteau | France |
| Things to Come | Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | United Kingdom |
| This Island Earth | This Island Earth | Joseph Newman and Jack Arnold | United States |
| Tommy | Tommy | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |
| Topper Returns | Topper Returns | Roy Del Ruth | United States |
| Universe | Universe | Colin Low and Roman Kroitor | Canada |
| The War Of The Worlds | The War Of The Worlds | Byron Haskin | United States |
| The Wizard Of Oz | The Wizard Of Oz | Victor Fleming | United States |
| The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Henry Levin and George Pal | United States |

## Official Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
* Golden Bear:
** The Woman and the Strangler by Rainer Simon
** Wetherby by David Hare
* Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: Flowers of Reverie by László Lugossy
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Robert Benton for Places in the Heart
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Jo Kennedy for Wrong World
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Fernando Fernán Gómez for Stico
* Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement: Tolomush Okeyev for The Descendant of Snow Leopard
* Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Ronja Rövardotter
* Honourable Mention:
** Damiano Damiani for Pizza Connection
** Les enfants
** Tarık Akan for Pehlivan

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Award

* Tōkyō saiban by Masaki Kobayashi

## Literature

* Brigitte Tast: Als Farbe das Grau, als Format der Innenblick. 35. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1985, Schellerten 2014, ISBN 978-3-88842-045-0