38th Venice International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane |
| Festival date | 2 – 12 September 1981 |
| Website | Website |
The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.[1][2]
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
[edit]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
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened:[4][5]
Main Competition
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]The following awards were presented at the 38th edition:[6]
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[7]): Barbara Sukowa & Jutta Lampe for Marianne and Juliane
Independent Awards
[edit]FIPRESCI Prize
[edit]- Marianne and Juliane by Margarethe von Trotta[8]
- They Don't Wear Black-tie by Leon Hirszman
- Do You Remember Dolly Bell? by Emir Kusturica
References
[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.
- ^ "38. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema". labiennale.org. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ Grazzini, Giovanni (1 September 1981). "Alla vigilia del mezzo secolo". Corriere della Sera. p. 19.
- ^ "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