Babette is a beautiful but unfortunately clueless young French woman who, in 1940, becomes a refugee when she seeks safe haven in England as the Germans move in to occupy her land. Babette is recruited as part of a scheme to help British military intelligence foil a German plot to invade England. The idea is for Babette to use her good looks to win the confidence of German officers and learn their secrets; however, despite her enthusiasm, Babette’s striking ineptitude when it comes to military espionage makes her as much of a threat as an asset to Allied forces.

Story about an egoist elder man who gets into confl ict with his daughter and her fiancé. Golden Medal of the I MIFF (1959).

Police forces investigate the robbery that happened at the ski resort somewhere in Alps. A young gendarme Florian Thaler goes to investigate, but not to attract attention he behaves as a usual holidayer. However, when he arrives there he seems to be more interest in the girls that came to ski here than in the investigation…

Based on Anne Frank’s diary, and the stage play that was adapted from it. From 1942 to 1944, in a Nazi occupied Amsterdam, the thirteen years old German Jewish girl Anne Frank lives hiding in an attic of a condiment factory with her sister, her parents, three members of another family and an old dentist. Along more than two years, she wrote in her diary, her feelings, her fears and relationship with the other dwellers.

The adventures and heartache of a group of deprived East End children in the care of stubborn social worker Ann Fairley. The children are fostered at Ranleigh House in the care of Mrs. Daniels, where Ann again encounters cheery electrician Bill Lowther. Bill, a widower who lost his son at a young age, becomes fond of Ann and subsequently begins to involve himself in her child welfare work. Silver Medal to Lewis Gilbert for the work with young actors at the I MIFF (1959).

1920s India. Bishwambhar Roy is the last in a line of zamindars who flourished in Bengal in the 19th century. However, their glorious past is long gone and Roy’s fortunes too are fast running out as he struggles to keep with the lifestyle of his ancestors by pawning the family jewels and to be up on his rich, upstart neighbor Mahim Ganguly. For years now Roy has precious little to do and has only one passion – holding extravagant musical performances in his opulent music room, flaunting whatever little remains of his wealth. Following the death of his wife and son in a storm, Roy withdraws onto complete seclusion. And when Ganguly invites him for a musical evening, he decides to upstage him with a grander concert that very evening. At the end of the concert he gives the artist his last gold coin. Eventually he rides off on his horse to his death…

Fifteen-year-old schoolboys Hans Boeckel and Bruno Tiches intend to smuggle themselves into the balloon’s basket. Boeckel is caught and punished, but Tiches remains undiscovered. Ten years later, Tiches speculates successfully on the stock-market while the working student Boeckel sells newspapers for a living. In 1933, while Tiches wears the Nazi uniform and is enjoying a successful career, Boeckel has lost his job at the. After the end of the war Tiches is doing as a business magnate, but is attacked in the newspapers by his childhood friend Boeckel – now a journalist – who criticizes his opportunism. Tiches demands that Boeckel revoke his accusations. But for the first time, Boeckel stands his ground... Golden Medal of the I MIFF.

Set in East Pakistan, Jago Hua Savera is the story of a fisherman’s struggle to build a boat. The future income of his entire family depends on whether he succeeds or not. The family members are shown trying to get money to buy the boat they need. The hopelessness of their objective is graphically underscored by the conditions in which they live, and the self-interest of the local moneylender whose purpose in life is to increase his coffers rather than lend a helping hand. Golden medal of I MIFF.

The setting is a beach house just before the Allied invasion on D-Day. A German officer has been killed by a commando unit of resistance fighters, three men and two women. They are caught and locked in the basement of the house until they can be executed in about an hour. During that sixty minutes, the five protagonists reveal a few secrets among themselves as rescuers and the Allied forces rapidly approach. Diploma at the I MIFF in 1959.

When the World War II starts carpenter Andrey Sokolov is forced to leave his family. During the very first months of war he is injured and took capture. He survives the hell of the concentration camp and manages to run away – beyond the battle line. During his short front vacation he gets to know that his wife and two daughters were killed during one of the bombings. His has only one son – now the officer – left in his life. Having returned to the front Andrey gets word that his son was also killed – in the last day of the war. After the war time Andrey works as a driver far away from his home – in Urupinsk. There he meets a small orphan boy whose mother died and father is missing. Sokolov claims to be his missing father and by that he gives the boy a parent, and himself – the new meaning of life. Grand Prix of the I MIFF.

Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman and a Japanese man who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War II in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present.