# 47th Berlin International Film Festival

The 47th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 February 1997.
The Golden Bear was awarded to Canadian-American film The People vs. Larry Flynt directed by Miloš Forman.
The retrospective dedicated to Austrian film director G. W. Pabst was shown at the festival.

## Juries

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

### Main Competition

* Jack Lang, French politician - Jury President
* Hark Bohm, German actor and filmmaker
* Férid Boughedir, Tunisian filmmaker and producer
* Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong/Chinese actress and model
* Fred Gronich, American senior executive of the MPAA
* David Hare, British filmmaker and playwright
* Per Holst, Danish producer
* Boleslaw Michalek, Polish screenwriter and film critic
* Humberto Solás, Cuban director and screenwriter
* Marianne Sägebrecht, German actress
* Ning Ying, Chinese filmmaker

## Official Sections
### Main Competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Comanche Territory | Territorio Comanche | Gerardo Herrero | Spain, France, Germany, Argentina |
| The Crucible | The Crucible | Nicholas Hytner | United States |
| The English Patient | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | United States |
| Four Days in September | O que é isso, companheiro? | Bruno Barreto | Brazil |
| Get on the Bus | Get on the Bus | Spike Lee | United States |
| Genealogies of a Crime | Généalogies d'un crime | Raúl Ruiz | France, Portugal |
| The Island on Bird Street | Øen i Fuglegaden | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany |
| Kitchen | 我愛廚房 | Yim Ho | Hong Kong, Japan |
| Life is All You Get | Das Leben ist eine Baustelle | Wolfgang Becker | Germany |
| In Love and War | In Love and War | Richard Attenborough | United States |
| Lucie Aubrac | Lucie Aubrac | Claude Berri | France |
| Miss Nobody | Panna Nikt | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| Moonlight Serenade | 瀬戸内ムーンライト・セレナーデ | Masahiro Shinoda | Japan |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman | United States |
| Port Djema | Port Djema | Eric Heumann | France, Italy, Greece |
| The River | 河流 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| Romeo + Juliet | Romeo + Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | United States |
| Rosewood | Rosewood | John Singleton | United States |
| Secrets of the Heart | Secretos del corazón | Montxo Armendáriz | France, Portugal, Spain |
| Smilla's Feeling for Snow | Smilla's Feeling for Snow | Bille August | Denmark, Germany, Sweden |
| Surveillance | 埋伏 | Huang Jianxin | China |
| Three Stories | Три истории | Kira Muratova | Russia, Ukraine |
| Twin Town | Twin Town | Kevin Allen | United Kingdom |
| Under Western Eyes | Leneged Einayim Ma'araviyot | Joseph Pitchhadze | Israel |
| Viva Erotica | 色情男女 | Tung-Shing Yee | Hong Kong |

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
* Golden Bear: The People vs. Larry Flynt by Miloš Forman
* Silver Bear Special Jury Prize: The River by Tsai Ming-liang
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Eric Heumann for Port Djema
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Juliette Binoche for The English Patient
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio for Romeo + Juliet
* Silver Bear for an Outstanding Single Achievement: Zbigniew Preisner for The Island on Bird Street
* Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Raúl Ruiz for Généalogies d'un crime
* Alfred Bauer Prize: Romeo + Juliet
* Honourable Mention:
** Jordan Kiziuk for The Island on Bird Street
** Life is All You Get by Wolfgang Becker
** Anna Wielgucka for Miss Nobody
** Get on the Bus by Spike Lee

### Honorary Golden Bear

* Kim Novak

### Berlinale Camera

* Lauren Bacall
* Ann Hui
* Armin Mueller-Stahl
* Franz Seitz

## Independent Awards
### Blue Angel Award

* Secretos del corazón by Montxo Armendáriz