39th Venice International Film Festival
Festival poster | |
Location | Venice, Italy |
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Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: The State of Things |
Festival date | 28 August – 2 September 1982 |
Website | Website |
The 39th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 2 September 1982.[1][2]
French filmmaker Marcel Carné was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was The State of Things directed by Wim Wenders.
Jury
The following people comprised the 1982 jury:[3][4]
- Marcel Carné, French filmmaker - Jury President
- Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker
- Mario Monicelli, Italian filmmaker
- Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian filmmaker
- Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker
- Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet filmmaker
- Valerio Zurlini, Italian filmmaker
Official Sections
The following films were selected to be screened:[5][6]
In Competition
Out of Competition
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Agony | Агония | Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | United States | |
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy | Woody Allen |
Mezzogiorno-Mezzanotte
A section devoted to spectacular films, remakes or eccentrics.[7][8]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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36 Chowringhee Lane | Aparna Sen | India | |
Ana | Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis | Portugal | |
Boy (1969) | 少年 | Nagisa Ôshima | Japan |
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Robert Altman | United States | |
Di padre in figlio | Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Gassmann | Italy | |
East 103rd Street | Chris Menges | United Kingdom | |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steve Spielberg | United States | |
Gasoline (1970) | Piero Bargellini | Italy | |
Gestures and Fragments: An Essay on the Military and Power | Gestos e Fragmentos | Alberto Seixas Santos | Portugal |
Heaven's Gate (1980) | Michael Cimino | United States | |
Kagero-za | Seijun Suzuki | Japan | |
A Letter to Freddy Buache | Lettre à Freddy Buache | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
Let's Spend the Night Together | Hal Ashby | United States | |
La notte dell'ultimo giorno | Adimaro Sala | Italy | |
On Top of the Whale | Het dak van de Walvis | Raoul Ruiz | Netherlands |
Le Pont du Nord | Jacques Rivette | France | |
Naissance | Robert Kramer | ||
Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | United States | |
Les Sacrifiés | Okacha Touita | France | |
Sadgati | Satyajit Ray | India | |
The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance on Film | Mura Dehn | United States | |
Toute une nuit | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | |
The Valiant Ones (1975) | 忠烈圖 | King Hu | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
Veronika Voss | Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
Une villa aux environs de New York | Benoît Jacquot | France | |
Victor/Victoria | Blake Edwards | United States |
Venezia De Sica
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Beyond the Door | Oltre la porta | Liliana Cavani | Italy |
Canto d'amore | Elda Tattoli | ||
Catherine's Wedding | Il matrimonio di Caterina | Luigi Comencini | |
Core mio | Stefano Calanchi | ||
Ehrengard | Emidio Greco | ||
Giocare d'azzardo | Cinzia Th. Torrini | ||
I Know That You Know That I Know | Io so che tu sai che io so | Alberto Sordi | |
Malamore | Eriprando Visconti | ||
Sconcerto Rock | Luciano Manuzzi | ||
Storia d'amore e d'amicizia | Franco Rossi | ||
Tomorrow We Dance | Domani si balla! | Maurizio Nichetti | |
Vatican Conspiracy | Morte in Vaticano | Marcello Aliprandi | |
La voce | Brunello Rondi | ||
What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight | Madonna che silenzio c'è stasera | Maurizio Ponzi |
Official Awards
The following awards were presented at the 39th edition:
In Competition
- Golden Lion: The State of Things by Wim Wenders
- Special Jury Prize: Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Silver Lion for Best First Work:
- Marcel Carné, Alessandro Blasetti, Luis Buñuel, Frank Capra, George Cukor, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergei Yutkevich, Alexander Kluge, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, King Vidor and Cesare Zavattini.
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize
OCIC Award
- Fünf letzte Tage by Percy Adlon
- Honorable Mention: Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
UNICEF Award
- De smaak van water by Orlow Seunke
Pasinetti Award
- Best Film: Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Best Actor: Max von Sydow for Flight of the Eagle
- Best Actress: Susan Sarandon by Tempest
Pietro Bianchi Award
Best Artistic Collaboration
Golden Phoenix
- Best Actor: Robert Powell for Imperative
- Best Actress: Béatrice Romand for Le Beau Mariage
References
- ^ "VENICE 1982 – THE 39th 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.
- ^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ^ "Venezia, film per film". La Stampa. No. 199. 24 August 1983. p. 14.
- ^ "39. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema". labiennale.org. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ "History of Biennale Cinema (see 80s)". labiennale.org. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Michael Cimino's 'Heaven's Gate' Restored & Headed To Venice Film Festival; Criterion Collection Edition On The Way?". indiewire.com. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1982". fipresci.org. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
External links
- Official website
- Venice Film Festival 1982 Awards on IMDb
- Venice Film Festival, September 1982, photos by Raymond Depardon (quote: "Twenty-eight films competed for the Golden Lion...")