Moritz de Hadeln, Former Berlinale and Venice Film Festival Chief, Dies at 85

Moritz de Hadeln, one of the most influential figures in European film festival history, has died at the age of eighty-five. According to Variety, de Hadeln passed away on Saturday at a hospital in Nyon, Switzerland. Over his career he led three of the continent's premier festivals — the Locarno Film Festival, the Berlinale in Berlin, and the Venice Film Festival. Born in Exeter, England, in nineteen forty, he came from an artistic family with deep cultural roots.

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