# The Golden Bear winners of the 1980s

The films that won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival from 1980 to 1989; some years the prize was shared.

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## Top 13

1. **Heartland** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Richard Pearce, 1980 (shared). A pioneer woman's life in Wyoming.
2. **Palermo or Wolfsburg** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Werner Schroeter, 1980 (shared). A Sicilian migrant working in Germany.
3. **Deprisa, Deprisa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Carlos Saura, 1981. Young delinquents on the outskirts of Madrid.
4. **Veronika Voss** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982. A former UFA star addicted to morphine.
5. **Ascendancy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Edward Bennett, 1983 (shared). A woman in 1920s Belfast.
6. **The Beehive** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mario Camus, 1983 (shared). Camilo José Cela's novel of post-war Madrid.
7. **Love Streams** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — John Cassavetes, 1984. Gena Rowlands and Cassavetes as siblings.
8. **Wetherby** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — David Hare, 1985 (shared). Vanessa Redgrave and a stranger's suicide.
9. **The Woman and the Stranger** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rainer Simon, 1985 (shared). An East German drama of a soldier's return.
10. **Stammheim** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reinhard Hauff, 1986. The trial of the Red Army Faction leaders.
11. **The Theme** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gleb Panfilov, 1987. A film shelved for years by Soviet censors.
12. **Red Sorghum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zhang Yimou, 1988. The director's debut and Gong Li's first role.
13. **Rain Man** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Barry Levinson, 1989. Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.

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