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38th Venice International Film Festival
The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981. Jury The following people comprised the 1981 jury: * Italo Calvino (Italy) (head of jury) * Marie-Christine Barrault (France) * Peter Bogdanovich (USA) * Luigi Comencini (Italy) * Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal) * Jesús Fernández Santos (Spain) * Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (Algeria) * Sergei Solovyov (Soviet Union) * Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland) Films in competition Awards The following awards were presented at the 38th edition: Official selection ;In Competition *Golden Lion - ''Marianne and Juliane'' (''Die bleierne Zeit'') by Margarethe von Trotta * Grand Special Jury Prize: **'' Sweet Dreams'' (''Sogni d'oro'') by Nanni Moretti **''They Don't Wear Black-tie'' (''Eles não usam black tie'') by Leon Hirszman *Silver Lion - '' Do You Remember Dolly Bell?'' (''Sjećaš li se Doli Bel?'') by Emir Kusturica *Best Actress (assigned, but not Volpi Cup) - Barbara Sukowa & Jutta Lampe (''Marianne and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel () (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020) was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Early life Menzel was born in Prague in 1938 to Josef Menzel and Božena Jindřichová. His father Josef was a journalist, translator and children's book writer. Menzel studied directing at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in Prague. His teachers at the academy included Czech Director Otakar Vávra. Career Menzel was a member of the Czech New Wave cinema in the 1960s. His first feature film, ''Closely Watched Trains'', won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967. The film was a World War II drama based on a book by Bohumil Hrabal. His film '' Larks on a String'' was filmed in 1969, but was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kargus
''Kargus'' is a 1981 Spanish drama film written and directed by Juan Miñón and Miguel Ángel Trujillo, at their feature film debut. The film was entered into the main competition at the 38th edition of the Venice Film Festival.Adriano Aprà, Giuseppe Ghigi, Patrizia Pistagnesi. ''Cinquant'anni di cinema a Venezia''. La Biennale di Venezia, 1982. . Plot A series of Vignettes that begin at the Civil War and end at the Spanish Economic Miracle is interwoven with 2 separate abstractions # Seeking a Utopia in the Gilbert Islands # A possible escape from the Social order to El "otro lado" In Vignete 1 The train which is apparently going to Vizcaya? offers a possible escape route (to France?) In Vignette 2 We see an escape from the Oppressive Social Services that want the change a family (from being hunter gatherers) to fit back into the state sponsored social order. Vignette 3 Focuses on a schoolroom in the 1950s and suggests that one can learn more from daydreaming than followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen (''Beng.'' মৃণাল সেন; 14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director, and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and few Hindi and Telugu language films. Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Tapan Sinha, Sen played major role in the New Wave cinema of eastern India. Sen has received various national and international honors including eighteen Indian National Film Awards. The Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan, and the Government of France honored him with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, while Russian Government honored him with the Order of Friendship. Sen was also awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest award for filmmakers in India. He was one of the few Indian filmmakers having won awards at the big three film festivals viz., Cannes, Venice and the Berlinale. Sen was a self described "private Marxist". Influenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Binet
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning "pure", leading to the alternative spellings ''Katharine'' and ''Katherine''. The former spelling, with a middle ''a'', was more common in the past and is currently more popular in the United States than in Britain. ''Katherine'', with a middle ''e'', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations English In Britain and the U.S., ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. The most common variants are ''Katherine,'' ''Kathryn,'' and ''Katharine''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French. Less-common variants in English include ''Katheryn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Games Of Countess Dolingen
''The Games of Countess Dolingen'' (french: Les Jeux de la comtesse Dolingen de Gratz) is a 1981 French fantasy-drama film written and directed by Catherine Binet and starring Carol Kane. The film was entered into the main competition at the 38th edition of the Venice Film Festival. Plot Cast * Carol Kane as Louise Haines-Pearson * Michael Lonsdale as Bertrand Haines-Pearson * Marina Vlady as the mother of the little girl * Marilú Marini as Countess Dolingen de Gratz / the maid * Robert Stephens as the professor * Roberto Plate as the traveler / the thief / the stranger * Katia Wastchenko as the little girl * Emmanuelle Riva Emmanuelle Riva (; 24 February 1927 – 27 January 2017) was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) and '' Amour'' (2012). Riva was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her role in ''Hiroshima mon ... as a guest Production Katia Wastchenko remembers the making of the film as "an enjoyabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Bevilacqua
Alberto Bevilacqua (27 June 1934 – 9 September 2013) was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, ''The Dust on the Grass'' (1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the ''Journal of Parma'', began to publish his stories in the early 1950s. ''Friendship Lost'', his first book of poems, was published in 1961. ''Caliph'', published in 1964, was his break-through novel. The protagonist, Irene Corsini, imbued with his own sweet and energetic temperament, is one of the strongest female characters in Italian literature. His novel ''This Kind of Love'' won the Campiello Prize in 1966. In both ''This Kind of Love'' and ''Caliph'', Bevilacqua oversaw the adaptations and productions of the film versions. ''This Kind of Love'' won Best Film at Cannes. Bevilacqua was also a poet. His writings have been translated throughout Europe, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Of Love
''Bosco d'amore'' (internationally released as ''Forest of Love'') is a 1981 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Bevilacqua. It is loosely based on a novel of Giovanni Boccaccio. It entered the competition at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. Cast *Monica Guerritore: Agnolella * Rodolfo Bigotti: Pietro * William Berger *Mario Feliciani *Orso Maria Guerrini *Gisela Hahn * Stanko Molnar * Rina Franchetti Rina Franchetti (23 December 1907 – 18 August 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990. Selected filmography * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * ''The Peddler and ... References External links * 1981 films Italian drama films Films directed by Alberto Bevilacqua Films based on Italian novels Films based on works by Giovanni Boccaccio Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli Films set in the 14th century 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana (born 1 October 1950) is an Italian Film director, director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Milan, during the 1970s he approaches the cinema by collaborating on the screenplay of Roberto Faenza's 1977 documentary ''Forza Italia!'', while his debut behind the camera comes two years later, in 1979 with the feature film To Love the Damned, presented at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. In 1981, he made an ambitious project, ''The Fall of the Rebel Angels (film), The Fall of the Rebel Angels'', presented at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. In 1996 he participated with other directors, Gianni Amelio, Marco Risi, Alessandro D'Alatri and Mario Martone in the RAI and UNICEF project ''Beyond childhood - Five directors for UNICEF''. In 2000 he returned to the 57th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival with ''One Hundred Steps'', a film of denunciation on the life and death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fall Of The Rebel Angels (film)
''The Fall of the Rebel Angels'' ( Italian: ''La caduta degli angeli ribelli'') is a 1981 Italian drama film written and directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. For her performance Alida Valli won the David di Donatello for best supporting actress. Plot Cecilia, a young bourgeois, despite her comfortable life, leaves work, family and loved ones to follow a man whom she met by chance and who will later discover to be a terrorist isolated from his companions. But this life in constant flight is not for her, she will decide to end it with a dramatic choice. Cast *Vittorio Mezzogiorno as Vittorio *Clio Goldsmith as Cecilia *Yves Beneyton as Giovanni * Alida Valli as Bettina *Francesca Rinaldi as Viola See also * List of Italian films of 1981 A list of films produced in Italy in 1981 (see 1981 in film): References Footnotes Sources * External linksItalian films of 1981at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1981 1981 Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lordan Zafranović
Lordan Zafranović (born 11 February 1944) is a Czech-Croatian film director. He was a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Early life Lordan Zafranović was born in 1944 in Maslinica, island of Šolta, Dalmatia, during the fascist occupation of Yugoslavia. He spent the first two years of his life in the El Shatt refugee camp together with his mother Marija and his older brother Zdenko. After the war, the family reunited with father Ivan and moved to Split, where younger brother Andrija was born. He graduated in ship-engineering from the Split Marine School in 1962 and continued with studies in literature and fine arts at the Split Pedagogical Academy (later University of Split) from 1963 to 1967. Work Zafranović belongs to the Prague wave (sometimes also called Praška filmska škola), a generation of acclaimed Yugoslav directors who had studied at the Prague Film School ( FAMU) around 1968. His peers were Rajko Grlić, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević, Srđan Karanovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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