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Berlin International Film Festival: 1956

Golden Berlin Bear

Date:	22 June - 3 July
Jury:	Marcel Carné (France) (head of jury); Bill Luckwell (UK); Giuseppe Vittorio Sampieri (Italy); Koichi Kawakita (Japan); Leo J. Horster (USA); Ilse Urbach (West Germany); Ludwig Berger (I) (West Germany); Otto Sonnenfeld (Israel) (head of jury) (documentaries/shorts); D. Gualberto Fernández (Uruguay) (documentaries/shorts); Sarukkai Gopalan (India) (documentaries/shorts); J. Hulsker (Netherlands) (documentaries/shorts); Fritz Kempe (West Germany) (documentaries/shorts)
Notes:	The festival's competition films are judged by a professional jury as well as by the festival's audience.

Best Short Documentary/Cultural Film


Winner:
	Paris la nuit (1955) - Jacques Baratier; Jean Valère

Best Feature-Length Documentary


Winner:
	Kein Platz für wilde Tiere (1956) - Bernhard Grzimek; Michael Grzimek

International Jury


Winner:
	Invitation to the Dance (1956) - Gene Kelly (I)

Audience Poll


Winner:
	Vor Sonnenuntergang (1956) - Gottfried Reinhardt (I)

Silver Berlin Bear

Best Actor


Winner:
	Trapeze (1956) - Burt Lancaster

Best Actress


Winner:
	Donatella (1956) - Elsa Martinelli

Best Director


Winner:
	Autumn Leaves (1956) - Robert Aldrich

Honorary Prize: Short Documentary/Cultural Film


Winners:
	Hitit günesi (1956) Spring Comes to Kashmir (1956)

Best Short Documentary/Cultural Film


Winner:
	Rythmetic (1956) - Norman McLaren

Best Feature-Length Documentary


Winner:
	African Lion, The (1955) - James Algar

International Prize


Winner:
	Richard III (1955) - Laurence Olivier

Audience Poll


Winner:
	Mi tío Jacinto (1956) - Ladislao Vajda

Honorary Prize


Winners:
	Long Arm, The (1956) - Charles Frend Sorcière, La (1956) - André Michel (I)

Bronze Berlin Bear

Audience Poll


Winner:
	Trapeze (1956) - Carol Reed (I)

Grand Golden Plaque


Winner:
	Kein Platz für wilde Tiere (1956) - Bernhard Grzimek; Michael Grzimek

Grand Silver Plaque


Winner:
	African Lion, The (1955) - James Algar

Grand Bronze Plaque


Winner:
	Zauber der Natur (1956) - Richard Mostler

Small Golden Plaque


Winner:
	Men Against the Arctic (1955) - Winston Hibler

Small Silver Plaque


Winner:
	Ernst Reuter (1955) - Wolfgang Kiepenheuer

Small Bronze Plaque


Winner:
	Très riches heures de l'Afrique romaine, Les (1956) - Jean Lehérissey

Honorable Mention


Winners:
	Byaku fujin no yoren (1956) - Shirô Toyoda - For the use of color. Camino de la vida, El (1956) - Alfonso Corona Blake - For the best direction. Pane, amore e... (1955) - Marcello Girosi - For the best humouristical film.

Best Short Documentary/Cultural Film


Winners:
	...erwachsen sein dagegen sehr (1956) - Wolf Hart Long Journey, The (1956) Sabotier du Val de Loire, Le (1955) - Jacques Demy

OCIC Award


Winner:
	Tuntematon sotilas (1955) - Edvin Laine

OCIC Award - Special Mention


Winner:
	Camino de la vida, El (1956) - Alfonso Corona Blake