The 24th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 15 August 1971 in Locarno, Switzerland. Following the resignation of Sandro Bianconi and Freddy Buache the year before the directors of the festival became a committee of seven.
The festival returned to is traditional summer schedule and open-air screenings. The festival featured the first screenings on the Piazza Grande, which would become a staple of the festival. The constructed open-air screen on the Piazza Grande was the biggest in Europe at the time, twenty by ten meters. Interestingly, no Swiss films were featured at the festival.
The festival awarded six Golden Leopards, the festival's top prize, this year. Three for best first features, two for best second features, and one for best "third world" feature.The first feature films awarded were On the Point of Death directed by Mario Garriba, They Have Changed Their Face directed by Corrado Farina, and The Friends directed by Gérard Blain.The Golden Leopards for best second features were awarded to Private Road by Barney Platts-Mills, Znaki Na Drodze by J. Piotrowsky. In the category of "third world" cinema Mexico: The Frozen Revolution directed by Raymundo Gleyzer won the Golden Leopard.
Jury The jury consisted of Russian actor and director Sergei Bondarchouk, Brazilian director David Neves, French producer Georges Roitfel, Swiss TV director Jurg Federspiel, and Italian thespian Francesca Romana Coluzzi.
Official Sections The following films were screened in these sections: Main Program
Main Program / Feature Films In Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country A Fable (The Slave) Al Freeman Jr.1971 USA Apa Ca Un Bivol Negru Water Like a Black Buffalo Andrei C. Balenau, Peter Bokor 1970 Romania Brother John James Goldestone 1971 USA Ciao, Gulliver So Long Gulliver Carlo Tuzii 1970 Italia Hanno Cambiato Faccia They Have Changed Their Face Corrado Farina 1971 Italia Ich Liebe Dich - Ich Töte Dich I Love you - I Kill you Uwe Brandner 1971 Germany Il Punto Di Morte On the Point of Death Mario Garriba 1971 Italia Krasnaia Ploschad Slabbid Vassili Ordynski 1970 Russia Le Sauveur The Savior Michel Mardore 1971 France Les Amis The Friends Gérard Blain 1970 France Lucie A Zazrazy Lucie and the Rescue Ota Koval 1970 Czech Republic Mexico, La Revolucion Congelada Mexico: the Frozen Revolution Raymundo Gleyzer 1971 Argentina Private Road Barney Platts-Mills 1971 Great Britain Question De Vie Life Question André Théberge 1971 Canada Take The Money And Run Woody Allen 1969 USA Viva La Muerte Long Live Death Fernando Arrabal 1971 Tunisia, France Zeit Der Störche Time of Storks Siegfried Kühn 1971 Germany Znaki Na Drodze Signs on the Road J. Piotrowsky 1970 Poland
Short and Medium-length films in Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country Elephant Lore Daybhai Bhakta India La Pierre Qui Flotte The Float Stone Jean-Jacques Andrien Belgium Non Siamo Abituati A Vedere Bandiere Senza Vento We are not Used to Seeing Windless Flags Jobst Grapow Italia
Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso) Main Program / Feature Films Out of Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Bang Bang Andréa Tonacci 1971 Brazil Breathing Together: Revolution In The Electric Family Morley Markson 1971 Canada Bronco Bullfrog Barney Platts-Mills 1969 Great Britain Bronte, Cronaca Di Un Massacro Che I Libri Di Storia Non Hanno Mai Narrato Bronte, Chronicle of a Massacre that History Books Have Never Narrated Florestano + Vancini 1971 Italia Egi Barany Miklós Jancsó 1970 Hungary Going Down The Road Donald Shebib 1970 Canada Le Petit Matin Early in the Morning I.G. Albicocco 1971 France Making It John Erman 1971 USA Mathias Kneissl Reinhardt Hauff 1970 Germany On Est Loin Du Soleil We are Far from the Sun Jacques Leduc 1971 Canada Pioniere In Ingolstadt Pioneers in Ingolstadt Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1971 Germany Romance Of A Horse Thief Abraham Polonsky 1971 USA Un'Anguilla Da 300 Milioni A 300 Million Eel Salvatore Samperi 1971 Italia Yehudin Menuhin, Chemin De Lumiere T François Reichenbach 1970 France
Short and Medium-length films - Out of Competition Short and Medium-length films Outside Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country A Sense Of Responsibility Alan Ball Great Britain Büntetöexpidìciò Criminal Deszö Magyar Hungary Come Into My Parlour C. Evans Great Britain Le Voyage De Herve Le Biham The Journey of Herve Le Bihan Laszlo Zsabo France Vrijeme Vampira Vampire Time Nikola Majdac Yugoslavia
Retrospective - Cinema And Resistance Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Aldo Dice: 26 X 1 Fernando Cerchio 1945 Italia De Rode Enge The Red Scary Lau Lauritzen 1945 Denmark Hangmen Aldo Die Fritz Lang 1942 USA Il Sole Sorge Ancora The Sun Still Arises Aldo Vergano 1946 Italia Il Terrorista The Terrorist Gianfranco De Bosio 1963 Italia La Bataille Du Rail Rail Battle René Clément 1946 France La Verte Moisson Green Harvest François Villiers 1959 France Lettere Di Condannati A Morte Della Resistenza Italiana Letters of Condemned to Death of the Italian Resistance Fausto Fornari 1953 Italia Ljubljana Pozdravlja-Osvoboditelje Ljubljana Welcomes-Insults Marijan Förster 1946 Yugoslavia Normandie-Niemen Normandy-Niemen Jean Dréville 1960 France, Russia Ostatni Etap Last Stage Wanda Jakubowska 1948 Poland Paisà Paisan Roberto Rossellini 1946 Italia Partizanske Dokumente Partisan Documents Joze Gale 1950 Yugoslavia
Special Sections - Animated Films Animated Films - Feature Films Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Il Cavaliere Inesistente The Non -Existent Knight Pino Zac 1969 ItaliaAnimated Films - Short Films (In Preview) A Racs T Gyula Macskassy, György Varnai Hungary Chewingo Home Daniel Suter Switzerland Die Ordnung The Order Bohumil Stepan Germany Digging Jim Duffy USA Eggs John Hubley USA Horizont Horizon Jerzy Kotowsky Poland Il Messaggio The Message Giulio Gianini Italia Il Signor Rossi Al Camping Mr. Rossi at the Campsite Bruno Bozzetto Italia Jeton: Le Western Jean Meunier France Last To Go Gérald Potterton Canada Les Pelerins The Pérrines Gérard Vallet Switzerland Linea 3 Line 3 Osvaldo Cavandoli Italia Linea 4 Line 4 Osvaldo Cavandoli Italia Love Affair Roy Evans Great Britain Melyviz Marcell Jankovics Hungary My Son, The King Bob Kurtz USA Naslednitsi Heirs Ivan Vesselinov 1970 Bulgaria No Arks Abu Abraham Great Britain Ogni Regno Every Kingdom Secondo Bignardi Italia Paradise Lost Evelyn Lambart Canada Patatomanie Jean Image France Patchwork Claude Luyet, Manuel Otero France Preacher Pavel Prochazka Switzerland Rainbow Bear Bill Melendez USA Scarabus Gérald Frydman 1971 Belgium Simon Says Anestos Tritchonis USA Stara Panna Spinster L. Naibauerova Czech Republic Syncromie Norman McLaren Canada The Dream Of The Sphynx Jim Gore USA Trimata Gloupatsi The Three Fools Doniou Donev 1970 Bulgaria
Official Awards International Jury
Golden Leopard for the best first features: On the Point of Death directed by Mario Garriba, They Have Changed Their Face directed by Corrado Farina, and The Friends directed by Gérard Blain. Golden Leopard for the best second features: Private Road by Barney Platts-Mills, Znaki Na Drodze by J. Piotrowsky. Prize for a Production of the Third World: MEXICO, LA REVOLUCION CONGELADA by Raymundo Gleyzer Source:
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