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38th Venice International Film Festival
Italian film festival in 1981
Italian film festival in 1981
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 38th Venice International Film Festival |
| image | VeniceFilmFestiva38bposter.jpg |
| image_size | 210px |
| caption | Festival poster |
| location | Venice, Italy |
| founded | 1932 |
| awards | Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane |
| date | 2 – 12 September 1981 |
| website | Website |
| chronology | Venice Film Festival |
| preceded_by | 37th |
| followed_by | 39th |
The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.
Italian writer and journalist Italo Calvino was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was Marianne and Juliane directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
Jury
The following people comprised the 1981 jury:
- Italo Calvino, Italian writer and journalist - Jury President
- Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
- Peter Bogdanovich, American filmmaker
- Luigi Comencini, Italian filmmaker
- Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese filmmaker
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian filmmaker
- Jesús Fernández Santos, Spanish filmmaker
- Sergei Solovyov, Soviet filmmaker
- Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish filmmaker and producer
Official Sections
The following films were selected to be screened:
Main Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beirut the Encounter | Beyroutou el lika | Borhane Alaouié | Lebanon |
| Cutting It Short | Postrizinj | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| Do You Remember Dolly Bell? | Сјећаш ли се Доли Бел? | Emir Kusturica | Yugoslavia |
| The Fall of Italy | Pad Italije | Lordan Zafranović | |
| The Fall of the Rebel Angels | La caduta degli angeli ribelli | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| Forest of Love | Bosco d'amore | Alberto Bevilacqua | |
| The Games of Countess Dolingen | Les Jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz | Catherine Binet | France |
| The Kaleidoscope | Chaalchitra | Mrinal Sen | India |
| Kargus | Juan Minon, Miguel Ángel Trujillo | Spain | |
| *Marianne and Juliane* | *Die bleierne Zeit* | Margarethe von Trotta | West Germany |
| The Opportunities of Rosa | Le occasioni di Rosa | Salvatore Piscicelli | Italy |
| Prince of the City | Sidney Lumet | United States | |
| Silvestre | João César Monteiro | Portugal | |
| Starfall | Звездопад | Igor Talankin | Soviet Union |
| Sweet Dreams | Sogni d'oro | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| Sweet Pea | Piso pisello | Peter Del Monte | |
| They Don't Wear Black Tie | Eles Não Usam Black-Tie | Leon Hirszman | Brazil |
| True Confessions | Ulu Grosbard | United States | |
| The Tyrant's Heart | A Zsarnok Szive | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary |
| The Witch Hunt | Forfølgelsen | Anja Brejen | Norway |
Out of Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| From a Far Country | Krzysztof Zanussi | Italy, United Kingdom, Poland | |
| Maeve | Pat Murphy | United Kingdom, Ireland | |
| Reborn | Renacer | Bigas Luna | Spain |
| The Savage Land | Yuan Ye | Zi Ling | China |
| Tales of Ordinary Madness | Storie di ordinaria follia | Marco Ferreri | Italy |
Mezzogiorno-Mezzanotte
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | Tribute to Yuriy Norshteyn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blow Out | Brian De Palma | United States | ||
| Christiane F. | Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo | Uli Edel | West Germany | |
| Cutter's Way | Ivan Passer | United States | ||
| Don't Cry | Paolo Brunatto, Costanzo Allione | Italy | ||
| The Falcon | Banovic Strahinja | Vatroslav Mimica | Yugoslavia, Germany | |
| Francisca | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal | ||
| The Hut | Pimak | Lee Doo-yong | South Korea | |
| Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | John M. Stahl | United States | ||
| One Man's War | La guerre d'un seul homme | Edgardo Cozarinsky | France | |
| Pickup on South Street (1953) | Samuel Fuller | United States | ||
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | |||
| Rencontre des nuages et du dragon | Lâm Lê | Vietnam, France | ||
| San Clemente | Raymond Depardon, Sophie Ristelhueber | France | ||
| S.O.B. | Blake Edwards | United States | ||
| A Velha a Fiar (1960) | Humberto Mauro | Brazil | ||
| Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) | Yozhik v tumane | Yuri Norstein | Soviet Union | |
| Tale of Tales (1979) | Skazka skazok |
Officina Veneziana
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le corderie dell'immaginario | Reniero Compostella, Ettore Pasculli | Italy | |
| Fermata Etna | Klaus Michael Grüber | Italy, France, Canada, Switzerland | |
| The Half-Meter Incident | Hadisat an-nusf meter | Samir Zikra | Syria |
| Du Zaïre au Congo | Hubert Galle, Christian Mesnil | Belgium, Switzerland, Canada | |
| La Ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa | Rebecca Horn | West Germany | |
| The Homeless One | Matlosa | Villi Hermann | Switzerland |
| Let There Be Light (1946) | John Huston | United States | |
| My Mother, My Daughter | Nadia Werba | Italy | |
| Pablo Picasso Painter | Le cantique des créature: Pablo Picasso pintor | Frédéric Rossif | France, Spain |
| Plunder of Peach and Plum (1934) | 桃李劫 | Yunwei Ying | China |
| Sirenen-Eiland | Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch | West Germany, Switzerland | |
| Der subjektive Faktor | Helke Sander | West Germany |
Official Awards
The following awards were presented at the 38th edition:
In Competition
- Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane by Margarethe von Trotta
- Special Jury Prize:
- Sweet Dreams by Nanni Moretti
- They Don't Wear Black-tie by Leon Hirszman
- Silver Lion: Do You Remember Dolly Bell? by Emir Kusturica
- Best Actress (assigned, but not Volpi Cup): Barbara Sukowa & Jutta Lampe for Marianne and Juliane
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize
- Marianne and Juliane by Margarethe von Trotta
- They Don't Wear Black-tie by Leon Hirszman
- Do You Remember Dolly Bell? by Emir Kusturica
References
- Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996
- L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008
References
- "VENICE 1981 – THE 38TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL".
- "The 1980s".
- "Juries for the 1980s".
- "38. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema".
- (1 September 1981). "Alla vigilia del mezzo secolo". [[Corriere della Sera]].
- "Venice Film Festival 1981 (Competition)". letterboxd.com.
- "Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935". labiennale.org.
- "FIPRESCI Awards 1981". fipresci.org.
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