# 24th Berlin International Film Festival

The 24th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1974.
The Golden Bear was awarded to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz directed by Ted Kotcheff.

## Juries

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:

### Main Competition

* Rodolfo Kuhn, Argentinian filmmaker - Jury President
* Margaret Hinxmann, British writer and film critic
* Pietro Bianchi, Italian journalist and film critic
* Gérard Ducaux-Rupp, French producer
* Kurt Heinz, West-German composer
* Akira Iwasaki, Japanese historian and film critic
* Arthur Knight, American historian and film critic
* Manfred Purzer, West German filmmaker
* Piet Ruivenkamp, Dutch film critic

## Official Sections
### Main Competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| A Handful of Love | En handfull kärlek | Vilgot Sjöman | Sweden |
| The Amlash Enchanted Forest | העיר יער קסום | Shlomo Suriano | Israel |
| Ankur | अंकुर | Shyam Benegal | India |
| A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja | Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja | Krsto Papić | Yugoslavia |
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada |
| Black Thursday | Les Guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | France |
| Boasting | من آنم که | Ali Akbar Sadeghi | Iran |
| Bobby's War | Bobbys krig | Arnljot Berg | Norway |
| Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | Franco Brusati | Italy |
| Charley One-Eye | Charley One-Eye | Don Chaffey | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Clockmaker | L'horloger de Saint-Paul | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| The Concert | The Concert | Claude Chagrin | United Kingdom |
| The Conscript | De loteling | Roland Verhavert | Belgium |
| The Earth Is a Sinful Song | Maa on syntinen laulu | Rauni Mollberg | Finland |
| Effi Briest | Fontane Effi Briest | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| In the Name of the People | Im Namen des Volkes | Ottokar Runze | West Germany |
| Little Malcolm | Little Malcolm | Stuart Cooper | United Kingdom |
| The Love of Captain Brando | El amor del capitán Brando | Jaime de Armiñán | Spain |
| The Pelican | Le Pélican | Gérard Blain | France |
| Rebellion in Patagonia | La Patagonia rebelde | Héctor Olivera | Argentina |
| Rise, Fair Sun | 朝やけの詩 | Kei Kumai | Japan |
| Sagarana: The Duel | Sagarana, o Duelo | Paulo Thiago | Brazil |
| Sea Creatures | Sea Creatures | Robin Lehman | United Kingdom |
| Still Life | طبیعت بی‌جان | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Iran |
| Straf | Straf | Olga Madsen | Netherlands |
| There Is No 13 | There Is No 13 | William Sachs | United States |
| Two | Two | Charles Trieschmann | United States |
| Zeami | 世阿彌 | Susumu Harada | Japan |

### Out of Competition

* With You and Without You, directed by Rodion Nahapetov (Soviet Union)

## Official Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
* Golden Bear: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Ted Kotcheff
* Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: The Clockmaker by Bertrand Tavernier
* Silver Bear:
** Bread and Chocolate by Franco Brusati
** Still Life by Sohrab Shahid-Saless
** Little Malcolm by Stuart Cooper
** In the Name of the People by Ottokar Runze
** Rebellion in Patagonia by Héctor Olivera

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Award

* Still Life by Sohrab Shahid-Saless