Hearing that the call was from the organizing committee, "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" won the award, and the crew members fell into ecstasy. Tang Yuqiang raised his hands high, waved vigorously, and let out a shout of "ah", which was even more exciting than an athlete winning the world championship. Akina Nakamori jumped up directly, shouting wah-wow, completely ignoring the image of a lady. Although the other people's performance was not as exaggerated as the two of them, they couldn't suppress their excitement and couldn't help but say, "Great!

In addition to being excited, Sen Chongdao couldn't help but ask, "Wangqiu, how do you know that we will definitely be able to win the award?"

Xu Wangqiu is so confident that "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" will win the award because he knows that films like "A Game of Chess That Didn't Finish Chess" have been treated unfairly, and films that have been transferred to other film festivals are often treated with great courtesy.

There are many such examples, and in 2005, Ang Lee's "Broken Arm Mountain" was tragically returned at Cannes and failed to be shortlisted for the main competition. So, Ang Lee sent "Broken Arm Mountain" to Venice. And Venice did not hesitate to give away the Golden Lion Award, which slapped Cannes in the face.

For another example, in 1998, after watching "One Can Be Less", Jacob, chairman of the Cannes Film Festival, thought that Zhang Yimou was promoting for the government, but he liked "My Father and Mother" very much, so he suggested that Zhang Yimou withdraw "No One is Missing" and let "My Father and Mother" be on top. Zhang Yimou explained to Jacob that "No One Can Be Less" had nothing to do with politics, but Jacob didn't listen. Zhang Yimou was so indignant that he wrote an open letter to Cannes, retracted his films, and sent them to Berlin and Venice, respectively. In the end, "My Father and Mother" won the Silver Bear in Berlin, while "No One is Missing" won the Golden Lion in Venice.

West Berlin and Venice are in competition, and "A Game of Chess" is good enough that West Berlin will definitely praise this film. After seeing the list of judges, Huang Zongjiang, and Jeanne Moreau, Xu Wangqiu knew that "A Game of Unfinished Chess" would definitely win the award, and maybe even win the grand prize. Although the film manifesto complicated the selection, he always believed that it would be okay to win the award.

Facts have proved that Xu Wangqiu's judgment is correct, and "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" does have a prize.

Xu Wangqiu didn't want to say this, which would give people the feeling that "A Game of Unfinished Chess" relied on a dark box operation to win the award, and chuckled: "Haven't you noticed? There are a lot of female members of the judges of this film festival, and our film pays attention to Mr. Sun Daolin and Mr. Rentaro Mikuni are old handsome guys, Tang Yuqiang is a handsome guy, plus me and Sato, two handsome directors with dignified appearances, the female judges don't vote for us, whose vote is it!"

Everyone knew that Xu Wangqiu was joking, but they couldn't help laughing.

At half past six in the afternoon, Xu Wangqiu walked the red carpet amid the shouts and screams of fans and walked into the screening hall of the Movie Palace. At this time, the screening hall was already crowded, and nearly 2,000 seats were almost full.

Sitting next to Xu Wangqiu and the crew of "Pauline on the Beach", Hou Mai is one of the Five Tigers of the New Wave and has a good relationship with Truffaut and Chabrol. He had heard Truffaut mention Xu Wangqiu many times, saying that Xu Wangqiu was a rare genius. Hou Mai has watched Xu Wangqiu's "Hoe Rape" and "Falcon", he doesn't like these two movies very much, he feels that Xu Wangqiu is too obsessed with sensory stimulation, and he is very rough in the handling of characters' emotions, and he is absolutely Truffaut's praise of Xu Wangqiu is too exaggerated.

However, after watching "A Game of Chess That Didn't End", his impression of Xu Wangqiu changed greatly. He believes that the film goes deep into the souls of the characters and perfectly presents the two wounded hearts.

Seeing Xu Wangqiu at this time, Hou Mai nodded at him with a smile and said: "When Truffaut told me that you are a rare genius, I was quite unimpressed, but after reading "A Game of Chess That Didn't End", I think he was right. It's incredible that you're so young, but you're able to master such a span of work and bring out the inner life of your characters perfectly. ”

Xu Wangqiu hasn't watched many Hou Mai movies, only the most famous ones. However, he still knows more about Hou Mai, because he likes Wong Kar Wai's movies more, and Wong Kar Wai is particularly deeply influenced by Hou Mai. Wong Kar-wai's films are in tune with Hou Mai's, Wong Kar-wai has been filming the estranged relationship between urban men and women all his life, while Hou Mai has been filming the love story of the French petty bourgeois middle class all his life.

Xu Wangqiu smiled and said, "It's an honor to hear you say that." I thought you'd hate me because of the movie manifesto, hate my movies. ”

"Truffaut once said something particularly reasonable, there are two kinds of directors: when the film is conceived and filmed, some directors think of the public, and others don't think about the public at all. For the former, cinema is a performing art, and for the latter, cinema is a personal adventure. There is no superiority between the two in essence, but the routes are different. ”

Xu Wangqiu and Hou Mai chatted, although they took different paths and had different concepts, they were both people who loved movies, and there were many things to talk about in movies. The two of them chatted very speculatively, and there was a feeling of hating late.

The two were chatting happily, the lights suddenly dimmed, the stage was smooth and flowing, the originally noisy scene instantly quieted down, and everyone looked up at the stage, waiting for the award ceremony to officially begin.

In anticipation, the host took to the stage and kicked off the award ceremony: "Hello ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to the 34th West Berlin Film Festival. Tonight, we're all in ......"

Unlike the Oscars and Golden Globe Awards, the awards ceremonies of the three major film festivals are very simple, not a grand gala, no singing and dancing performances, and no exciting award process, just a simple commendation conference. After a brief opening remarks, the festival's president, de, gave a speech on stage before moving on to the award ceremony.

Last year, the Chinese film "Three Monks" won the Best Short Film Screenplay Award in the Short Film category, and this year there was no short film in China, and the Golden Bear for Short Film was easily taken home by Czech stop-motion animation master Jan Swinmeyer's "The Dimension of Dialogue".

After the award of the short film unit was awarded, the president of the jury, Jeanne Moreau, led the six judges including Huang Zongjiang to the stage and took their seats on the right side of the stage, and then the award ceremony of the main competition unit officially began.

"The award for outstanding artistic achievement was won by the West German-Turkish co-production, Hackley's Season!"

"The award for Best Actress went to the actor of the Soviet film "Love I Hoped For", Yevgenia Grushenko!"

"The award for Best Actor went to the actor of the American film Season of Champions, Bruce Dern!"

The main competition of the West Berlin Film Festival today does not have as many awards as in later generations, with only six awards: Outstanding Artistic Achievement, Best Actor and Actress, Best Director, Jury Prize, and Best Film.

After Hou Mai took away the Best Director Award, only the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Picture Award remained. At this time, the on-site reporter suddenly realized that there were only two awards left, but after receiving a notice from the organizing committee, there were still three crews invited to attend the award ceremony, "Hive", "Fast in 1920", and "A Game of Chess That Didn't End".

There are two possibilities for two awards for three films, one is that a certain award has a double yolk egg, and the other is that although a certain crew is invited to attend the award ceremony, it is actually not awarded. Being invited to attend the award ceremony, but not giving the award, often appears in young directors, and a well-known director like Hou Mai would not dare to do this at the film festival. However, "The Hive", "Fast in 1920", and "A Game of Chess" are all young directors, and this situation can be seen in any film.

Is there a double yolk egg, or is there a movie without an award?

The reporters at the scene turned their heads to see the reactions of the three crews, wanting to find clues from the three crew members. They were surprised to find that at this time, the members of the three crews also turned their heads to look at the other crews with nervous faces, as if they wanted to find answers from the other crews, and obviously they didn't know if they really had awards.

In fact, these three films are somewhat similar, they are all historical themes: "The Hive" tells the story of Madrid in the 40s, the late civil war, "Fast in 1920" tells the bloody conflict between Christianity, which represents the rulers, and Catholicism, which represents the interests of workers, in Ireland in 1920, and "A Game of Chess" tells the story of the great impact of the war of aggression against China on two families.

However, the styles of these three films are completely different, "The Hive" is a prose film with no clear thread at all, "Fast in 1920" is a typical realist style, and "A Game of Chess" is a realistic film shot in a surrealist way.

The highest level of these three films is undoubtedly "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished", and it is the most likely to win the award, but Xu Wangqiu made a very controversial film declaration, so the fate of the award became simple and blurred.

When the chairman of the jury, Jean-Na-Moro, picked up a white envelope and walked to the stage, everyone in the audience held their breath and stared at the envelope in Jean-Moro's hand, for fear of missing the most exciting showdown.

At this moment, Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but be a little nervous, his breathing became thicker, and his heart beat faster. He inhaled hard to calm himself down. Next to him, Sun Daolin and Tang Yuqiang all held their breath and stared at the envelope in Jean Namoro's hand, while Akina Nakamori was even more nervous and didn't dare to look at it, clasped his hands together, and prayed in his heart.

The Berlinale is a little different from the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals, where the Venice and Cannes award presenters take to the stage to talk about their feelings about the awards, while the Berlin award presenters read the comments given by the jury.

Jeanne Moreau opened the envelope and read slowly: "Films that depict group portraits are the most important tests of directorial skills, but this film has smooth camera movements and a variety of narrative techniques, showing the faces of all beings in the context of civil war." All the actors gave a good performance and brought out a good story that reflects the recent history of Spain. The Grand Jury Prize went to ......"

Jeanne Morrow paused after reading her comments and looked up at the audience. She paused, and the whole scene suddenly fell silent. Many people held their breath as Jeanne Moreau announced the final results.

Hearing the group portrait movie, Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but exhale, knowing that it was the Spanish film "Beehive" that won the Grand Jury Prize. This film is about the late Spanish Civil War, a small café, often gathered all kinds of people, poets and scholars, drunkards, prostitutes, black market merchants, all kinds of people, for different purposes to use this place as their meeting or leisure place, is a typical group portrait film.

Now that "The Hive" won the Grand Jury Prize, the only competition for the Golden Bear is "A Game of Unfinished Chess" and "Fast in 1920"!

Jeanne Moreau didn't deliberately play up the suspense and glanced down at the list of winners. After confirming the name of the winning film, she smiled and read it out: "Spanish film "The Hive"!"