27th Venice International Film Festival
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: The Battle of Algiers |
| Festival date | 28 August – 10 September 1966 |
| Website | Website |
The 27th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 10 September 1966.[1]
Italian writer Giorgio Bassani was the Jury President. The Golden Lion winner was The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
Jury
[edit]- Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer - Jury President[2]
- Lindsay Anderson, British director and film critic
- Luboš Bartošek, Czechoslovakian film historian
- Michel Butor, French writer and poet
- Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker
- Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker
- Lev Kuleshov, Soviet filmmaker
Official selection
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened:[3]
In Competition
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almost a Man | Un uomo a metà | Vittorio De Seta | Italy |
| Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | France | |
| The Battle of Algiers | La battaglia di Algeri | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy, Algeria |
| Chappaqua | Conrad Rooks | United States | |
| Les Créatures | Agnès Varda | France | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | François Truffaut | France, United Kingdom | |
| The First Teacher | Первый учитель | Andrey Konchalovskiy | Soviet Union |
| The Guest | Atithi | Tapan Sinha | India |
| The Game Is Over | La Curée | Roger Vadim | France, Italy |
| The Search | La Busca | Angelino Fons | Spain |
| Night Games | Nattlek | Mai Zetterling | Sweden |
| The Wild Angels | Roger Corman | United States | |
| Yesterday Girl | Abschied von gestern | Alexander Kluge | West Germany |
Out of Competition
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Big City | A Grande Cidade | Carlos Diegues | Brazil |
| Buster Keaton Rides Again | John Spotton | Canada | |
| Change of Life | Mudar de vida | Paulo Rocha | Portugal |
| The Climber | Sticenik | Vladan Slijepcevic | Yugoslavia |
| Courage for Every Day | Každý den odvahu | Evald Schorm | Czechoslovakia |
| Cul-de-sac | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom | |
| The Drifter | Alex Matter | ||
| The Face of Another | Tanin no kao | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Japan |
| Farewells | Het afscheid | Roland Verhavert | Netherlands |
| The Female Soldier | La soldadera | José Bolaños | Mexico |
| Francesco di Assisi | Liliana Cavani | Italy | |
| I Was Happy Here | Desmond Davis | United Kingdom | |
| The Taking of Power by Louis XIV | La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV | Roberto Rossellini | France |
Official Awards
[edit]Main Competition
[edit]- Golden Lion: The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
- Special Jury Prize:
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Jacques Perrin for Un uomo a metà
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Natalya Arinbasarova for The First Teacher
Independent Awards
[edit]FIPRESCI Prize
[edit]OCIC Award
[edit]- Au hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson
- Honorable Mention: Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge
- Special Prize:
- The War Game by Peter Watkins
- Ha-Yeled Me'ever Lerechov by Yosef Shalhin
Lion of San Marco
[edit]- Memorandum by Donald Brittain and John Spotton
- Testa di rapa by Hermína Týrlová and Giancarlo Zagni[4]
- Best Film about Adolescence: Ritzar bez bronya by Borislav Sharaliev
- Best Documentary: Le mistral by Joris Ivens
- Best Documentary - Television: Storm Signal by Robert Drew
- Grand Prize:
- Hectorologie by Yves Plantin and Alain Blondel
- Rodzina czlowiecza by Wladyslaw Slesicki
- The Girl and the Bugler by Aleksandr Mitta
Plate 'Lion of San Marco'
[edit]- The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work by Jules Engel
- Best Experimental Film: L'ultimo by Vittorio Armentano
- Best Sport Film: Hockey by Mica Milosevic
- Best Children's Film: The Kind-Hearted Ant by Aleksandar Marks & Vladimir Jutrisa
- Best Animated Film: Chromophobia by Raoul Servais
- Cultural and Educational Film: Comment savoir by Claude Jutra
- Film about Architecture: Helioplastika by Jaroslaw Brzozowski
- Plate:
- The Animal Movie by Grant Munro and Ron Tunis
- Jemima and Johnny by Lionel Ngakane
- Physics and Chemistry of Water by Sarah Erulkar
- Ptaci kohaci by Jirí Torman
- Documentary - Contemporary Life/Social: Labanta negro by Piero Nelli
- Recreative Children's Film: Little Mole, for the episode Krtek a raketa by Zdeněk Miler
- Children's Film - Educative-Didactical: Alexander and a Car without the Left Headlight by Peter Fleischmann
- Honorary Diploma:
- La fiaba di Tancredi by Velia Vergani
- Tribunal by Herbert Seggelke
- Willem de Kooning, the Painter by Paul Falkenberg and Hans Namuth
- Jury Hommage: Robert Bresson
- Award for best interpretation: Ritzar bez bronya by Oleg Kovachev
References
[edit]- ^ "The 1960s". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "Juries for the 1960s". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "27. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema". labiennale.org. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
- ^ "Farewell to Giancarlo Zagni- worked with Visconti". Retrieved October 7, 2013.