The 25th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 10 September 1964.
Italian writer Mario Soldati was the jury president for the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to Red Desert, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
Jury Mario Soldati, Italian writer - Jury President Rudolf Arnheim, American author Ove Brusendorff, Danish film historian Thorold Dickinson, British filmmaker Georges Sadoul, French writer Ricardo Muñoz Suay, Spanish director Jerzy Toeplitz, Polish film theorist
Official Sections The following films were selected to be screened:
In Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country Girl with Green Eyes Desmond Davis United Kingdom The Gospel According to St. Matthew Il vangelo secondo Matteo Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy Hamlet Гамлет Grigori Kozintsev Soviet Union King & Country Joseph Losey United Kingdom Life Upside Down La vie à l'envers Alain Jessua France To Love Att Älska Jörn Donner Sweden A Married Woman Une femme mariée Jean-Luc Godard France Nothing but a Man Michael Roemer United States The Peach Thief Kradetzat na praskovi Vulo Radev Bulgaria Red Desert Il deserto rosso Michelangelo Antonioni Italy This Special Friendship Les amitiés particulières Jean Delannoy France Tonio Kröger Rolf Thiele West Germany
Out of Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country All These Women För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor Ingmar Bergman Sweden Woman Is a Wonderful Thing La donna è una cosa meravigliosa Mauro Bolognini Italy Afternoon Screenings English title Original title Director(s) Production country Berlin - Kaiser to Khrushchev Marshall Flaum United States Caroline Georges Dufaux, Clément Perron France Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment Robert Drew United StatesDecember 7th - The Day of Infamy Marshall Flaum Faces of November Robert Drew Happy Mother's Day Joyce Chopra, Richard Leacock How to Succeed as a Gangster Jack Haley Jr. In Search of Kim Novak The Oppenheimer Enigma L'enigma Oppenhemier Leandro Castellani Italy
Official Awards Golden Lion: Red Desert by Michelangelo Antonioni Special Jury Prize: Hamlet by Grigori Kozintsev The Gospel According to St. Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Tom Courtenay for King & Country Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Harriet Andersson for To Love Best First Work: La vie à l'envers by Alain Jessua
Independent Awards
San Giorgio Prize Nothing But a Man by Michael Roemer
FIPRESCI Prize Red Desert by Michelangelo Antonioni
OCIC Award The Gospel According to St. Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pasinetti Award La vie à l'envers by Alain Jessua Parallel Sections: Passenger by Andrzej Munk
Lion of San Marco - Grand Prize Skoplje '63 by Veljko Bulajić Best Documentary: L'enigma Oppenhemier by Leandro Castellani
References
External links
Venice Film Festival 1964 Awards on IMDb