# 37th Berlin International Film Festival

The 37th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 20 February to 3 March 1987. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Soviet film Tema, directed by Gleb Panfilov.
The retrospective was in honour of Armenian-American film and theatre director Rouben Mamoulian. The homage was dedicated to French couple Jean-Louis Barrault, actor and director, and Madeleine Renaud, actress. It was titled Renaud-Barrault au cinéma.

## Juries
### Main Competition

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
* Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor - Jury President
* Juliet Berto, French actress and filmmaker
* Kathleen Carroll, American film critic
* Callisto Cosulich, Italian film critic
* Victor Dyomin, Soviet actor and screenwriter
* Reinhard Hauff, German filmmaker
* Edmund Luft, West-German playwright, film critic and film historian
* Jiří Menzel, Czech actor and filmmaker
* Dan Pița, Romanian filmmaker
* Paul Schrader, American filmmaker and film critic
* Antonio Skármeta, Chilean writer

## Official Sections
### Main Competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Children of a Lesser God | Children of a Lesser God | Randa Haines | United States |
| Comrades | Comrades | Bill Douglas | United Kingdom |
| Days to Remember | Die Verliebten | Jeanine Meerapfel | West Germany, Yugoslavia |
| The Death of Empedocles | Der Tod des Empedokles | Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | West Germany, France |
| Diary for My Lovers | Napló szerelmeimnek | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
| For Love Alone | For Love Alone | Stephen Wallace | Australia |
| In the Shadow of the Wind | Les Fous de Bassan | Yves Simoneau | Canada, France |
| Masks | Masques | Claude Chabrol | France |
| Mauvais Sang | Mauvais Sang | Leos Carax | France |
| The Miracle | Le Miraculé | Jean-Pierre Mocky | France |
| The Moro Affair | Il caso Moro | Giuseppe Ferrara | Italy |
| Mournful Unconcern | Скорбное бесчувствие | Alexander Sokurov | Soviet Union |
| 'night, Mother | 'night, Mother | Tom Moore | United States |
| Platoon | Platoon | Oliver Stone | United States |
| The Sea and Poison | 海と毒薬 | Kei Kumai | Japan |
| So Many Dreams | So viele Träume | Heiner Carow | East Germany |
| The Theme | Тема | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union |
| Vera | Vera | Sérgio Toledo | Brazil |
| Wolf's Hole | Vlčí bouda | Věra Chytilová | Czechoslovakia |
| Year of Enlightment | El año de las luces | Fernando Trueba | Spain |

### Out of competition

* Farewell, directed by Elem Klimov (Soviet Union)
* The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese (United States)
* A Chronicle of Amorous Accidents, directed by Andrzej Wajda (Poland)
* The Little Prosecutor [de], directed by Hark Bohm (West Germany)
* Light of Day, directed by Paul Schrader (United States)
* Ein Treffen mit Rimbaud, directed by Ernst-August Zurborn (West Germany)
* True Stories, directed by David Byrne (United States)

### Retrospective

The following films were shown in the retrospective dedicated to Rouben Mamoulian:
| Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Applause | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Becky Sharp | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Blood and Sand | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| City Streets | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| The Gay Desperado | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Golden Boy | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| High, Wide, and Handsome | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Interview With Mamoulian | Philip Jenkinson | United Kingdom |
| Love Me Tonight | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| The Mark of Zorro | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Queen Christina | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Rings on Her Fingers | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Silk Stockings | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| The Song of Songs | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| Summer Holiday | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
| We Live Again | Rouben Mamoulian | United States |
The following films were shown in the homage titled "Renaud-Barrault au cinéma" dedicated to Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Bizarre, Bizarre | Drôle de drame | Marcel Carné | France |
| Entire Days in the Trees | Des journées entières dans les arbres | Marguerite Duras | France |
| Hélène | Hélène | Jean Benoît-Lévy | France |
| Jean de la Lune | Jean de la Lune | Jean Choux | France |
| Jean-Louis Barrault: Le langage du corps | Jean-Louis Barrault: Le langage du corps | Muriel Balash | United States, France |
| Jean-Louis Barrault, A Man of the Theatre | Jean-Louis Barrault, Un homme de théâtre | Muriel Balash | United States, France |
| Kinder des Olymp: Madeleine Renaud und Jean Louis Barrault | Kinder des Olymp: Madeleine Renaud und Jean Louis Barrault | Birgitta Ashoff | West Germany |
| Children of Montmartre | La Maternelle | Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein | France |
| That Night in Varennes | La Nuit de Varennes | Ettore Scola | France, Italy |
| Blind Desire | La Part de l'ombre | Jean Delannoy | France |
| La Ronde | La Ronde | Max Ophüls | France |
| The Fantastic Symphony | La Symphonie fantastique | Christian-Jaque | France |
| Blood on His Sword | Le Miracle des loups | André Hunebelle | France |
| House of Pleasure | Le Plaisir | Max Ophüls | France |
| The Puritan | Le puritain | Jeff Musso | France |
| Children of Paradise | Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel Carné | France |
| The Doctor's Horrible Experiment | Le Testament du docteur Cordelier | Jean Renoir | France |
| The Strange Monsieur Victor | L'Étrange Monsieur Victor | Jean Grémillon | France |
| The Tunnel | Le Tunnel | Kurt Bernhardt | France, Germany |
| L'Or dans la montagne | L'Or dans la montagne | Max Haufler | Switzerland, France |
| Summer Light | Lumière d'été | Jean Grémillon | France |
| Maria Chapdelaine | Maria Chapdelaine | Julien Duvivier | France |
| Portrait of Madeleine Renaud | Portrait de Madeleine Renaud | Jean-Marie Carzou | France |
| Stormy Waters | Remorques | Jean Grémillon | France |
| Midship | Vent debout | René Leprince | France |

## Official Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
* Golden Bear: The Theme by Gleb Panfilov
* Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: The Sea and Poison by Kei Kumai
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Oliver Stone for Platoon
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Ana Beatriz Nogueira for Vera
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Gian Maria Volonté for The Moro Affair
* Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement:
** Márta Mészáros for Diary for My Lovers
** Fernando Trueba for Year of Enlightment
* Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Children of a Lesser God
* Alfred Bauer Prize: Mauvais Sang

## Independent Awads
### FIPRESCI Award

* The Theme by Gleb Panfilov