# 10th Moscow International Film Festival

The 10th Moscow International Film Festival was held 7–21 July 1977. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Hungarian film The Fifth Seal directed by Zoltán Fábri, the Spanish film El puente directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and the Soviet film Mimino directed by Georgiy Daneliya.

## Jury

* Stanislav Rostotsky (USSR - President of the Jury)
* Salah Abu Seif (Egypt)
* Barbara Brylska (Poland)
* Souna Boubakar (Niger)
* Valerio Zurlini (Italy)
* Michael Kutza (USA)
* Toshiro Mifune (Japan)
* Vladimir Naumov (USSR)
* István Nemeskürty (Hungary)
* Yuri Ozerov (USSR)
* Ion Popescu-Gopo (Romania)
* Humberto Solás (Cuba)
* René Thévenet (France)
* Basu Chatterjee (India)
* Suimenkul Chokmorov (USSR)
* Milutin Colic (Yugoslavia)

## Films in competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The August Star | Sao thang tam | Tran Dac | Vietnam |
| The Swimming Pool | Baseynat | Binka Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria |
| Logan's Run | Logan's Run | Michael Anderson | United States |
| Mina, Wind of Freedom | Mina, viento de libertad | Antonio Eceiza | Mexico |
| The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet | İntikam Meleği – Kadın Hamlet | Metin Erksan | Turkey |
| Heroes Are Born Twice | Al-abtal yooladoon marratayn | Salah Dehny | Syria |
| The Head | Al-ras | Faisal Al-Yassiri | Iraq |
| The Late Blossom | Le soleil se lève en retard | André Brassard | Canada |
| Idealist | Idealist | Igor Pretnar | Yugoslavia |
| Antti the Treebranch | Antti Puuhaara | Katariina Lahti, Heikki Partanen, Riitta Rautoma | Finland |
| The Moving Picture Man | El cine soy yo | Luis Armando Roche | Venezuela |
| Foul Play | El puente | Juan Antonio Bardem | Spain |
| Mrigayaa | Mrigayaa | Mrinal Sen | India |
| Mimino | Mimino | Georgiy Daneliya | Soviet Union |
| Silent Love | Een stille liefde | René van Nie | Netherlands |
| An Unforgettable Autumn | An Unforgettable Autumn | Khaltariin Damdin | Mongolia |
| The Incorrigible Barbara | Die unverbesserliche Barbara | Lothar Warneke | East Germany |
| Night Over Chile | Noch nad Chili | Sebastián Alarcón, Aleksandr Kosarev | Soviet Union |
| The Life of Chikuzan | Chikuzan hitori tabi | Kaneto Shindo | Japan |
| Omar Gatlato | Omar Gatlato | Merzak Allouache | Algeria |
| San Babila-8 P.M. | San Babila ore 20 un delitto inutile | Carlo Lizzani | Italy |
| The Doom | Osinda | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romania |
| The Fifth Seal | Az otodik pecset | Zoltán Fábri | Hungary |
| Río Negro | Río Negro | Manuel Pérez | Cuba |
| Ceddo | Ceddo | Ousmane Sembene | Senegal |
| Sonya and the Madman | سونيا والمجنون Sonya Wa Elmagnon | Houssam El-Din Mustafa | Egypt |
| To Save the City | Ocalić miasto | Jan Łomnicki | Poland, Soviet Union |
| Evening Land | Aftenlandet | Peter Watkins | Denmark |
| Crazy Women | Las locas | Enrique Carreras | Argentina |
| Kuntur Wachana | Kuntur Wachana | Federico García Hurtado | Peru |
| Shadow of the Castles | L'ombre des châteaux | Daniel Duval | France |
| Do Be Quick | Běž, ať ti neuteče | Stanislav Strnad | Czechoslovakia |
| Dead End | Bon Bast | Parviz Sayyad | Iran |
| The Sternstein Manor | Sternsteinhof | Hans W. Geißendörfer | West Germany |
| Elvis! Elvis! | Elvis! Elvis! | Kay Pollak | Sweden |
| It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet | It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet | Eric Till | Great Britain |

## Awards

* Golden Prizes:
** The Fifth Seal by Zoltán Fábri
** El puente by Juan Antonio Bardem
** Mimino by Georgiy Daneliya
* Silver Prizes:
** Omar Gatlato by Merzak Allouache
** The Swimming Pool by Binka Zhelyazkova
** Shadow of the Castles by Daniel Duval
* Special Prizes:
** Night Over Chile by Sebastián Alarcón and Aleksandr Kosarev
** Río Negro by Manuel Pérez
* Prizes:
** Best Actor: Radko Polič for Idealist
** Best Actor: Amza Pellea for The Doom
** Best Actress: Mary Apick for Dead End
** Best Actress: Mercedes Carreras for Crazy Women
* Special Diploma: Young Actor: Lele Dorazio for Elvis! Elvis!
* Prix FIPRESCI: Kuntur Wachana by Federico García Hurtado