38th Venice International Film Festival
Italian film festival in 1981
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The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.[1][2]
Festival poster | |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| 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
The 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
- 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:[4][5]
Main Competition
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Tribute to Yuriy Norshteyn | |||
| 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:[6]
In Competition
- 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[7]): Barbara Sukowa & Jutta Lampe for Marianne and Juliane