17th Berlin International Film Festival
The 17th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 23 June – 4 July 1967. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Belgian film Le départ directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:- Thorold Dickinson, director, screenwriter and producer - Jury President
- Rüdiger von Hirschberg, producer
- Knud Leif Thomsen, director and screenwriter
- Michel Aubriant, journalist and writer
- Sashadhar Mukerjee, producer
- Aleksandar Petrović, director and screenwriter
- Willard Van Dyke, filmmaker and photographer
- Manfred Delling, journalist and writer
Films in competition
English title | Original title | Director | Country |
Next Year, Same Time | Alle Jahre wieder | Ulrich Schamoni | West Germany |
The Rats Woke Up | Buđenje pacova | Živojin Pavlović | Yugoslavia |
The ABC of Love | El ABC del amor | Rodolfo Kuhn, Eduardo Coutinho and Helvio Soto | Argentina, Brazil, Chile |
Flea Ceoil | Louis Marcus | Ireland | |
A Gangster girl | Het gangstermeisje | Frans Weisz | Netherlands |
Story of Barbara | Historien om Barbara | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Denmark |
Here's Your Life | Här har du ditt liv | Jan Troell | Sweden |
The Seventh Floor | Il fischio al naso | Ugo Tognazzi | Italy |
The Collector | La Collectionneuse | Éric Rohmer | France |
The Strange Night | La notte pazza del conigliaccio | Alfredo Angeli | Italy |
The Departure | Le départ | Jerzy Skolimowski | Belgium |
The Wall | Le mur | Serge Roullet | France |
The Two of Us | Le vieil homme et l'enfant | Claude Berri | France |
Liv | Pål Løkkeberg | Norway | |
Life's Just Great | Livet är stenkul | Jan Halldoff | Sweden |
Paranoia | Paranoia | Adriaan Ditvoorst | Netherlands |
The Dream | Сан San | Mladomir Puriša Đorđević | Yugoslavia |
Lost Spring | 惜春 Sekishun | Noboru Nakamura | Japan |
The Whisperers | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom | |
Through the Eyes of a Painter | M. F. Husain | India | |
Το πρόσωπο της Μέδουσας To prosopo tis Medousas | Nikos Koundouros | Greece, United Kingdom | |
Tattoo | Tätowierung | Johannes Schaaf | West Germany |
Key
Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:- Golden Bear: Le départ by Jerzy Skolimowski
- Silver Bear for Best Director: Živojin Pavlović for Buđenje pacova
- Silver Bear for Best Actress: Edith Evans for The Whisperers
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: Michel Simon for Le vieil homme et l'enfant
- Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize:
- * Michael Lentz for Alle Jahre wieder
- * Éric Rohmer for La Collectionneuse
- Youth Film Award
- *Best Feature Film Suitable for Young People: La Collectionneuse by Éric Rohmer
- FIPRESCI Award
- *Alle Jahre wieder by Ulrich Schamoni
- Interfilm Award
- *Here's Your Life by Jan Troell and The Two of Us by Claude Berri
- Interfilm Award – Honorable Mention
- *The Whisperers by Bryan Forbes
- OCIC Award
- *The Whisperers by Bryan Forbes
- C.I.C.A.E. Award
- *Here's Your Life by Jan Troell
- C.I.D.A.L.C. Award
- *Here's Your Life by Jan Troell
- C.I.D.A.L.C. Gandhi Award
- *The Two of Us by Claude Berri
- UNICRIT Award
- *Le départ by Jerzy Skolimowski