CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · Arts & Letters

7th Berlin International Film Festival

1957 film festival edition

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ552209 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 7th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1957.

The Golden Bear was awarded to 12 Angry Men directed by Sidney Lumet. The International Federation of Film Critics awarded FIPRESCI Award for the first time this year.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “7th Berlin International Film Festival” is 1957 film festival edition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Berlin, International and Film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Berlin, International and Film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1957 film festival edition” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q552209. Authority coordinates are 52.520, 13.380. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “7th Berlin International Film Festival”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 7th Berlin International Film Festival primary sources, 7th Berlin International Film Festival archive and Berlin research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “7th Berlin International Film Festival”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “7th Berlin International Film Festival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.