The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.
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 The following people comprised the 1981 jury: 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 The following films were selected to be screened:
Main Competition 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 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
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 ItalyThe 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 FrancePickup 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 BrazilTribute to Yuriy NorshteynHedgehog in the Fog (1975) Yozhik v tumane Yuri Norstein Soviet Union Tale of Tales (1979) Skazka skazok
Officina Veneziana 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 The following awards were presented at the 38th edition:
In Competition Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane by Margarethe von Trotta Special Jury Prize: Sweet Dreams by Nanni Moretti They Don't Wear Black-tie by Leon Hirszman Silver Lion: Do You Remember Dolly Bell? by Emir Kusturica Best Actress (assigned, but not Volpi Cup): Barbara Sukowa & Jutta Lampe for Marianne and Juliane
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize Marianne and Juliane by Margarethe von Trotta They Don't Wear Black-tie by Leon Hirszman Do You Remember Dolly Bell? by Emir Kusturica
References
Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996 L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008
External links
Venice Film Festival 1981 Awards on IMDb