| Location | Moscow, Soviet Union | 
|---|---|
| Founded | 1959 | 
| Awards | Grand Prix | 
| Festival date | 9–23 July 1961 | 
| Website | http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru | 
The 2nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 July 1961.[1] The Grand Prix was shared between the Japanese film The Naked Island directed by Kaneto Shindo and the Soviet film Clear Skies directed by Grigori Chukhrai.
Jury
- Sergei Yutkevich (USSR - President of the Jury)
 - Chinghiz Aitmatov (USSR)
 - Zoltán Várkonyi (Hungary)
 - Luchino Visconti (Italy)
 - Sergei Gerasimov (USSR)
 - Karel Zeman (Czechoslovakia)
 - Mehboob Khan (India)
 - Joshua Logan (USA)
 - Leon Moussinac (France)
 - Roger Manwell (Great Britain)
 - Francisco Piña (Mexico)
 - Walieddin Youssef Samih (Egypt)
 - Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
 - Huang Guang (China)
 - Michael Tschesno-Hell (East Germany)
 - Liviu Ciulei (Romania)
 - Borislav Sharaliev (Bulgaria)
 
Films in competition
The following films were selected for the main competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Alba Regia | Alba Regia | Mihály Szemes | Hungary | 
| Das Riesenrad | Das Riesenrad | Géza von Radványi | West Germany | 
| Big Request Concert | Das große Wunschkonzert | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Austria | 
| — | Det store varpet | Nils R. Müller | Norway | 
| Warriors for Freedom | Pedjuang | Usmar Ismail | Indonesia | 
| William Tell | Wilhelm Tell | Michel Dikoff | Switzerland | 
| Sunrise at Campobello | — | Vincent J. Donehue | United States | 
| The Children of Bullerbyn Village | Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn | Olle Hellbom | Sweden | 
| Everybody Go Home | Tutti a casa | Luigi Comencini | Italy, France | 
| The Naked Island | Hadaka no shima | Kaneto Shindo | Japan | 
| Thirst | Setea | Mircea Drăgan | Romania | 
| Enclosure | L'Enclos | Armand Gatti | France, Yugoslavia | 
| We Were Young | A byahme mladi | Binka Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria | 
| Kukuli | Kukuli | Luis Figueroa, Eulogio Nishiyama, Cesar Villanueva | Peru | 
| Kurulubedda | Kurulubedda | L. S. Ramachandran | Ceylon | 
| Chaudhvin Ka Chand | Chaudhvin Ka Chand | Mohammed Sadiq | India | 
| To My Father in Ulan Bator | Ulaan-Baatart baygaa miniy aavd | Dejidiin Jigjid | Mongolia | 
| The Beginning and the End | بداية ونهاية | Salah Abu Seif | Egypt | 
| — | Nebeski odred | Bosko Boskovic, Ilija Nikolic | Yugoslavia | 
| The Fire on the Second Line | Lửa Trung Tuyến | Phạm Văn Khoa | North Vietnam | 
| The Last Winter | Den sidste vinter | Frank Dunlop, Anker Sørensen, Edvin Tiemroth | Denmark, West Germany | 
| The Haunted Castle | Das Spukschloß im Spessart | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany | 
| Professor Mamlock | Professor Mamlock | Konrad Wolf | East Germany | 
| The Trials of Oscar Wilde | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Ken Hughes | United Kingdom | 
| Stories of the Revolution | Historias de la revolución | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba | 
| Tumangan River | Tumangan River | Chen San In | North Korea | 
| Tonight a City Will Die | Dziś w nocy umrze miasto | Jan Rybkowski | Poland | 
| A Revolutionary Family | Geming jiating | Shui Hua | China | 
| — | Skandaali tyttökoulussa | Edvin Laine | Finland | 
| Juana Gallo | Juana Gallo | Miguel Zacarías | Mexico | 
| Fetters | Pouta | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovakia | 
| Clear Skies | Chistoe nebo | Grigori Chukhrai | Soviet Union | 
| This Earth Is Mine | Esta tierra es mía | Hugo del Carril | Argentina | 
Awards
- Grand Prix:
 - Special Golden Prize: Everybody Go Home by Luigi Comencini
 - Golden Prizes:
 - Silver Prizes:
- Alba Regia by Mihály Szemes
 - Thirst by Mircea Drăgan
 - The Haunted Castle by Kurt Hoffmann
 - Director: Armand Gatti for Enclosure
 - Actor: Peter Finch for The Trials of Oscar Wilde
 - Actor: Bambang Hermanto for Warriors for Freedom
 - Actress: Yu Lan for A Revolutionary Family
 - Director of photography: Boguslaw Lambach for Tonight a City Will Die
 - Decorator Bill Constable and costume designer Terence Morgan for The Trials of Oscar Wilde
 
 
References
- ↑ "2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
 
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