On February 23rd, after the Spring Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival in Europe finally arrived at the exciting moment of awards after a competition in the main competition unit.

During the competition period, each screening of Red Sorghum attracted a considerable number of filmmakers and audiences. The German newspaper "People's Page" commented: "This is a rough and colorful film with a strong life color.

The president of the jury, Alan Bostin, and the judges Eberhardt Junkersdorf, Tom Lardy, Andrei Smirnov, Tilda Swinton, etc., voted for the best film, best director and other awards in the main competition unit.

The film "Red Sorghum" directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li and Jiang Wen won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film.

This is the first time that a Chinese filmmaker has won the top prize at the European Triple Film Festival, and it is also the first world-class award won by a Chinese film with real weight.

Zhang Yimou, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a red tie, excitedly delivered his acceptance speech: "Thank you to the Berlin Film Festival, thank you to the judges, thank you for choosing red sorghum, thank you. For me and my young friends, this award means that we have the possibility to make better Chinese films. Movies are a bridge between human beings, and people from different countries and nationalities understand and appreciate each other through films." The reason why those of us love movies so much is that it is a bridge for human emotional communication. The Berlin International Film Festival is the most important pillar of this bridge, we Chinese call it 'mainstay", I wish the Berlin Film Festival this mainstay can be better and better, thank you."

Before Qiao Feng appeared, except for Hollywood movies, the films of any other country in the world lacked the ability to sell to the world. Some local films have strong penetration in the regional market, such as Hong Kong films in the Southeast Asian market, and even discs can be sold everywhere in Europe and the United States, but they are absolutely incapable of being distributed in theaters.

So film festivals play a very important role, and film festivals around the world are like transit stations and megaphones, helping films from unknown countries to spread to the world.

Chinese cinema in the eighties is one of those players that needs to be disseminated to other countries.

Before 88 years, Chinese films were unknown in the world, no one knew what Chinese films were like, even the previous Yellow Earth also won awards, but the weight of the award was not enough.

But this year, in this Spring Festival that Chinese are celebrating, the Berlinale helped Chinese films break the ice and become famous.

Last year's last emperor also won several Oscar awards, although there are also mainland co-production companies, but others will only think that the last emperor is the success of Hong Kong films, not the success of Chinese films, many years later, Hong Kong returned, this may be counted in Chinese films, but at present, others do not think so.

Therefore, the Berlin International Film Festival awarded the highest gold bear award to a red sorghum, which is a real success of Chinese films, and this result shocked the whole West, and of course, the country that is still celebrating the Spring Festival.

For the general public in China, no one knows that there is such a film that has won the German election, and for filmmakers, everyone doesn't think that this movie can win awards.

Yes, no one thinks it's going to win.

China's relationship with the Berlin Film Festival began in 1981, when Shanghai Film Studio's "The Return of the Swallow" was honored to represent China in the competition. Before 1988, Chinese films such as "Homesickness", "Blood, Always Hot", "Yamaha Fish File" and "Strange Friends" also participated in the Berlin Film Festival.

It is not easy to win awards because of the heavy political color, especially since China's ideology is different from that of the West, so even if it is the Berlin Film Festival, which is the most politically charged and political of the three major European film festivals, it is very, very difficult for Chinese films to win awards.

At the end of last year, the Film Bureau had already confirmed that "The Child King" directed by Cheng Kaige would participate in Berlin, and Hader, chairman of the Berlin Film Festival, appreciated the film very much, but then Chen Kaige himself voluntarily gave up going to the Berlin Film Festival and chose to send it to Cannes to compete.

Just because of Cheng Kaige's wanton release of pigeons, Hader also criticized Ms. Yu Yuxi, the first Chinese authorized to select films.

At that time, it was already the end of the year, and the registration for the Berlin Film Festival was actually closed at the end of November, Ms. Yu Yuxi and they had to urgently ask for help from film studios across the country, and director Yang Fengliang of the Western Film Studio recommended to her Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" that he had just completed.

Yu Yuxi didn't know Zhang Yimou, and after listening to Yang Fengliang's recommendation, he asked Zhang Yimou to send her registration materials and photos quickly. The time was quite tight, and the copy was quickly prepared and sent to Berlin, and after the Christmas holiday, Chairman Hader saw the film, he liked it very much, and said excitedly: "This is exactly the film that the Berlinale wants!"

However, although the chairman of the film festival is very optimistic about Red Sorghum and says that it is exactly the film that the Berlin Film Festival needs, in fact, Zhang Yimou still has no bottom in his heart after knowing such an evaluation, because there have been too many failures from the past.

As a result, the red sorghum, which caused a sensation in Berlin during the competition, finally became famous overnight on the evening of February 23, 1988.

"I'm so tired, I really want to go back now."

Qiao Feng on the big night received the movie that Gong Li called back from Germany, and the first sentence he picked up was this.

"Are you tired of attending the award ceremony, how about winning the award, the Golden Bear Award, you should be happy." Qiao Feng asked funny.

"It's because I won the award that I'm tired." Gong Li didn't even ask Qiao Feng why he didn't say anything, but he already knew that Red Sorghum had won the award, and he had also won the Golden Bear Award, Gong Li ignored this, and said in a listless tone.

"How?" Qiao Feng asked.

"After the award ceremony, when I left the venue, I was surrounded by a group of reporters for a long time to interview, and then I returned to the hotel, and I was surrounded for a long time.

"Get some sleep, and I'll leave for home tomorrow."

"I miss you, I want to sleep with you."

"I miss you too, I want to sleep with you."

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