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Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was killed in a car accident&hellip…
BAFTA Awards
Best Film
Best Direction(Nominee)
Best Screenplay(Nominee)
This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was&hellip…
Berlin International Film Festival
Interfilm Recommendation-Competition
Silver Berlin Bear, Best Actor
Golden Berlin Bear(Nominee)
Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews, Jacob overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. Eventually, he decides to pass on the news of hope to his fellow prisoners. However, in order to be believed&hellip…
CIDALC Award
Golden Berlin Bear
Otto Dibelius Film Award
OCIC Award
Kati is a 43-year-old widow who wants a child by her married lover, but he refuses. Through her friendship with another woman, they help each other - the friend gets a marriage she wants and Kati adopts a child&hellip&hellip…
Cannes Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize - Competition
Grand Prize of the Jury
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Director Werner Herzog (AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD; FITZCARRALDO) approaches the true story of famous wild child Kaspar Hauser as a metaphor, continuing his cinematic investigations into human consciousness and civilization&hellip…
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
Best Film
This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was killed in a car accident a year after the movie was made)&hellip…
German Film Awards
Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Individual Achievement in Editing
Film Award in Silver, Shaping of a Feature Film
Director Werner Herzog (AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD; FITZCARRALDO) approaches the true story of famous wild child Kaspar Hauser as a metaphor, continuing his cinematic investigations into human consciousness and&hellip…
Golden Globe Awards
Best Foreign Film(Nominee)
This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was killed in a car accident a year after&hellip…
International Ecological Film Festival
Plaque
A tongue-in-cheek film, a mixture of documentary and dramatic effect, on the subject of garbage in general and, in particular, the part it plays in the life of a young man named Simon, cast in the role of a latter-day Adam. His fateful act of tossing away an apple core sets in motion all we know about litter, waste, garbage&hellip…
Moscow International Film Festival
Golden Prize
FIPRESCI Prize
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of novelist Vladimir Arsenyev's novel about survival, set against the stark wilderness of Siberia. When Mongol guide, Dersu, is hired by a Russian crew of mapping surveyors, they soon realize their original negative opinion of him as an inexperienced&hellip…
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Supporting Actor
This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was killed in a car accident a year after the&hellip…
New York Film Festival
This two disc set from Criterion features the Maysles brother documentary Grey Gardens and Albert Maysles new sequel The Beales of Grey Gardens. Grey Gardens: Out in East Hampton, behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds, there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter known as&hellip&hellip…
Saturn Awards
Golden Scroll, Best Horror Film(Nominee)
Director Brian De Palma made a name for himself with this twisty shocker starring a pre-SUPERMAN Margot Kidder as the mysterious Danielle. A French-Canadian model, Danielle may be covering up a murder to protect her recently separated homicidal Siamese twin--or maybe not. Plucky female&hellip…
Venice International Film Festival
Director Brian De Palma made a name for himself with this twisty shocker starring a pre-SUPERMAN Margot Kidder as the mysterious Danielle. A French-Canadian model, Danielle may be covering up a murder to protect her recently separated homicidal Siamese twin--or maybe not. Plucky female reporter Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) witnessed&hellip&hellip…