The 39th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 2 September 1982.
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: 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: In Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country Apprehension Die Beunruhigung Lothar Warneke East Germany The Big Brother Le grand frère Francis Girod France Blow to the Heart Colpire al cuore Gianni Amelio Italy, France Blue Planet Il pianeta azzurro Franco Piavoli Italy Chopin Sciopèn Luciano Odorisio Crossroads Grihajuddha Buddhadev Dasgupta India The Dam To fragma Dimitris Makris Greece The Draughtsman's Contract Peter Greenaway United Kingdom An Egyptian Story حدوتة مصرية Youssef Chahine EgyptEstoy en crisisFernando ColomoSpain The Eyes, the Mouth Gli occhi, la bocca Marco Bellocchio Italy Flight of the Eagle Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd Jan Troell Sweden, West Germany, Norway The Foreigner A Estrangeira João Mário Grilo Portugal A Good Marriage Le Beau Mariage Éric Rohmer France The Good Soldier Il buon soldato Franco Brusati Grog Francesco Laudadio Italy Guernica Ferenc Kósa West Germany, Hungary Hero Barney Platts-Mills United Kingdom The Hes Case De smaak van water Orlow Seunke Netherlands Imperative Imperativ Krzysztof Zanussi Poland Last Five Days Fünf letzte Tage Percy Adlon West Germany Private Life Частная жизнь Yuli Raizman Soviet Union Querelle Rainer Werner Fassbinder FranceWhat Are We Waiting for to Be Happy!Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!Coline Serreau The State of Things Der Stand der Dinge Wim Wenders West Germany Tempest Paul Mazursky United States The Trout La Truite Joseph Losey France The Voice Golos Ilya Averbakh Soviet Union
Out of Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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. English title Original title Director(s) Production country 36 Chowringhee Lane Aparna Sen India Ana Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis PortugalBoy (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 ItalyGestures 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 ItalyOn 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 KongVeronika Voss Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany Une villa aux environs de New York Benoît Jacquot FranceVictor/Victoria Blake Edwards United States
Venezia De Sica English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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: Sciopèn by Luciano Odorisio The Hes Case by Orlow Seunke
Career Golden Lion 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 Agony by Elem Klimov The State of Things by Wim Wenders
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 Renato Castellani
Best Artistic Collaboration Mikhail Ulyanov for Private Life
Golden Phoenix Best Actor: Robert Powell for Imperative Best Actress: Béatrice Romand for Le Beau Mariage References
External links
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...")