Berlin Film Festival Founder's Nazi Past Casts Shadow Over 2020 Edition

The 70th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival should be a cause for celebration. But recent revelations about the festival's first director, Dr. Alfred Bauer, are casting a dark shadow over this year's festivities.

Bauer, a film historian who ran the Berlinale from its start in 1951 through 1976, has long been held up as a symbol of the Berlinale's core values of openness, tolerance and the embrace of the other. Since his death in 1986, Berlin has awarded the Alfred Bauer Prize in his honor, recognizing work that "opens new perspectives on cinematic art." Baz Luhrmann won the Alfred Bauer for, and Polish dissident director Andrzej Wajda won in 2009 foron Jan.

"It is a paradox of history that I and my late friend and mentor Andrzej Wajda — who was part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II — should have received an award in Berlin that carries Bauer's name," says Polish director Agnieszka Holland, the Alfred Bauer Prize winner in 2017 forOn Tuesday, Feb.

“We are convinced that an external and independent group of historians should investigate Alfred Bauer’s position in the Nazi regime,” said Berlinale executive director Mariette Rissenbeek. "Accordingly, we are pleased that the IfZ can now initiate the necessary research work."A version of this story first appeared in the Feb. 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

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