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Berlin International Film Festival

German film festival
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Also known as: Berlinale, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
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German:
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Also called:
Berlinale

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Berlin International Film Festival, one of the world’s largest film festivals, held annually in Berlin in February. The festival was the idea of Oscar Martay, a film officer in the U.S. military who was stationed in West Berlin after World War II. In 1950 he formed a committee that included members of the Berlin Senate and the German film industry. Together they laid the groundwork for the inaugural festival, which was held in June 1951. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) was the first film shown, and its star, Joan Fontaine, was on hand. Martay was awarded a Golden Bear (Goldener Bär), ...(100 of 237 words)

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