Vietnam War films in spotlight at Berlin festival

Berlin (ANTARA News) - The 58th Berlin Film Festival will screen a
retrospective recalling the impact of the Vietnam conflict on US
cinema, the organisers said on Monday.

Mike Nichols' 1970 anti-war film "Catch-22" and "Coming Home", for
which Jane Fonda won an Oscar in 1979, will also be part of the
eight-film programme running from February 8 to 15.

Not all the films deal directly with the Vietnam War -- "Catch-22" is
set during World War II and Robert Altman's comedy classic "M*A*S*H" in
the Korean War -- but they were mostly made during the later conflict
and reflect a new perspective in Hollywood cinema, the Berlinale
organisers told AFP.



They said the retrospective has been timed to coincide with the 40th
anniversary of the "Vietnam Congress", an anti-war protest in Berlin
that became a key moment in the left-wing student movement that swept
Europe in 1968.

The Berlinale will open on February 7 with the premiere of acclaimed US
director Martin Scorcese's documentary about the Rolling Stones, "Shine
A Light". (*) END

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