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Berlin International Film Festival

German film festival
Also known as: Berlinale, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin(Show More)
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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....

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