2nd Moscow International Film Festival

The 2nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 July 1961. The Grand Prix was shared between the Japanese film The Naked Island directed by Kaneto Shindo and the Soviet film Clear Skies directed by Grigori Chukhrai.

Jury

• Sergei Yutkevich (USSR - President of the Jury)
• Chinghiz Aitmatov (USSR)
• Zoltán Várkonyi (Hungary)
• Luchino Visconti (Italy)
• Sergei Gerasimov (USSR)
• Karel Zeman (Czechoslovakia)
• Mehboob Khan (India)
• Joshua Logan (USA)
• Léon Moussinac (France)
• Roger Manvell (Great Britain)
• Francisco Piña (Mexico)
• Walieddin Youssef Samih (Egypt)
• Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
• Huang Guang (China)
• Michael Tschesno-Hell (East Germany)
• Liviu Ciulei (Romania)
• Borislav Sharaliev (Bulgaria)

Films in competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:

Awards

• Grand Prix:
• The Naked Island by Kaneto Shindo
• Clear Skies by Grigori Chukhrai
• Special Golden Prize: Everybody Go Home by Luigi Comencini
• Golden Prizes:
• Professor Mamlock by Konrad Wolf
• We Were Young by Binka Zhelyazkova
• Silver Prizes:
• Alba Regia by Mihály Szemes
• Thirst by Mircea Drăgan
• The Haunted Castle by Kurt Hoffmann
• Director: Armand Gatti for Enclosure
• Actor: Peter Finch for The Trials of Oscar Wilde
• Actor: Bambang Hermanto for Warriors for Freedom
• Actress: Yu Lan for A Revolutionary Family
• Director of photography: Boguslaw Lambach for Tonight a City Will Die
• Decorator Bill Constable and costume designer Terence Morgan for The Trials of Oscar Wilde

References

External links

• Moscow International Film Festival: 1961 at Internet Movie Database