The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.[1][2]
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Location | Venice, Italy |
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Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane |
Festival date | 2 – 12 September 1981 |
Website | Website |
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
editThe following people comprised the 1981 jury:[3]
- 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
- Jesús Fernández Santos, Spanish filmmaker
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian filmmaker
- Sergei Solovyov, Soviet filmmaker
- Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish filmmaker and producer
Official Sections
editMain Competition
editEnglish title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 |
Official Awards
editThe following awards were presented at the 38th edition:[4]
In Competition
edit- Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane by Margarethe von Trotta
- Special Jury Prize:
- Silver Lion: Do You Remember Dolly Bell? by Emir Kusturica
- Best Actress (assigned, but not Volpi Cup[5]): Barbara Sukowa & Jutta Lampe for Marianne and Juliane
Independent Awards
editFIPRESCI Prize
editReferences
edit- ^ "VENICE 1981 – THE 38TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ^ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Venice Film Festival 1981 (Competition)". letterboxd.com. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ "Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1981". fipresci.org. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996
- L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008