Topic summary
Locarno Festival
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Locarno Film Festival.
History
The festival's most successful era was under Moritz de Hadeln, who succeeded in internationalizing and stabilizing the LFF during the 1970s. The year 1971 also marked the introduction of one of the Locarno festival's most famous features: the huge open-air theater the Piazza Grande. Each year in the town square the screen is constructed and every year it draws crowds of thousands to watch films outside.