The 37th Locarno Film Festival was held from 10 to 19 August 1984 in Locarno, Switzerland. For the first time in the history of the festival, the President of the Swiss Confederation, leader of Switzerland, attended the festival. Other notable attendees included writer Patricia Highsmith, actor John Hurt and ambassadors from Italy and India. This was considered the highest attended Locarno festival to date, with an unofficial estimate of 50,000 attendees. This was great news to organizers who had scheduled the festival a week later than usual to avoid competition from the television broadcast of the Olympics.
The Grande Piazza open-air theater was upgraded with a Dolby audio system and the opening film was Broadway Danny Rose. The closing film was the 1954 A Star Is Born directed by George Cukor.
The festival did not have a week dedicated to a Nation's cinema this year as the spot was filled by the reissue of Hitchcock films and the "Silesian Tetralogy" from Kazimierz Kutz with the final film having its world premiere on the Grande Piazza screen at Locarno.
The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Stranger Than Paradise directed by Jim Jarmusch.
Official Sections
The following films were screened in these sections:
Main Competition
Feature films Feature Films In Competition - Main Program Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country Campo Europa Pierre Maillard Switzerland Der Gemeindepräsident The Mayor Bernard Giger Switzerland DonauwalzerWaltz's of the Danube Xaver Schwarzenberger Austria Jenstchina U Tchetvero Ieieu MoujtchineA Woman and Her Four Men Algimantas Puipa Russia Kaltes Fieber Cold Fever Joseph Rusnak Germany L'Air Du Crime The Air of Crime Alain Klarer Switzerland L'Etat De Crise The State of Crisis Mamad Haghighat France, Germany Le Roi De La Chine The King of China Fabrice Cazeneuve France Noites Do Sertão Backland Nights Carlos Alberto Prates Correia Brazil Notti E Nebbie Nights and Mists Marco Tullio Gordana Italy Nunca Fomos Tão Felizes Nunca Happier Than Ever Murillo Salles Brazil Stranger Than Paradise Jim Jarmusch USA The Terence Davies Trilogy Terence Davies Great Britain Tiznao Salvador Bonet, Dominique Cassuto de Bonet Venezuela Öszi Almanach Almanac of Fall Béla Tarr Hungary
Television Movies TV-Movies In Competition - Main Program Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country Bali Istvan Szabo Germany Edwin Rodney Bennet Great Britain Gubijin-So Yu Bi-Soo Katsumi Ohyma Japan Journey Into The Shadows Anna Benson Gyles Great Britain Le Chien De Jerusalem Jerusalem's Dog Fabio Carpi Carpi France Orfaos Da Terra Earth Orphans Paulo Alfonso Grisoli Brazil Paolo E Francesca Paolo and Francesca Vittorio De Sisti Italy Saigon: Year Of The Cat Stephen Frears Great Britain Something About Amelia Randa Haines USA The Aerodrome Giles Foster Great Britain The Cafeteria Amram Nowak USA The Dollmaker Daniel Petrie USA The Killing Floor William Duke USA The Wedding Gordon Flemying Great Britain The Wooden Leg Maria Nicolakopoulou Greece Walter Stephen Frears Great Britain
Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso) Feature Films Out of Competition - Main Program English Title Original Title Director(s) Production CountrySweet Body of Bianca Bianca Nanni Moretti ItalyBroadway Danny Rose Woody Allen USA Tosca's Kiss Il Bacio Di Tosca Daniel Schmid SwitzerlandKhandhar Mrinal Sen India Class Relations Klassenverhältnisse Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub Germany The Holy Innocents Los Santos Inocentes Mario Camus SpainLove Streams John Cassavetes USA Diary for My Children Naplo Gyrmekeimnek Marta Meszaros HungaryParis, Texas Wim Wenders Germany, FranceRumble Fish Francis Ford Coppola USASignal 7 Rob Nilsson USAStreamers Robert Altman USA Special Sections
Carte Blanche to Bernardo Bertolucci Carte Blanche to Bernardo Bertolucci English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country42nd Street Lloyd Bacon 1933 USA Germany, Year Zero Germania, Anno Zero Roberto Rossellini 1947 Italy The Earrings of Madame de... Madame De... Max Ophüls 1953 France Outskirts Okraina Boris Barnet 1933 RussiaSansho the Bailiff Sansho Dayu Kenji Mizoguchi 1954 Japan
Retrospective - Lux-Film Retrospective Lux-Film 1934-1954, Aesthetics And System of An Italian StudioOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Abbasso La Miseria Down the Misery Gennaro Righelli 1945 Italy Anna Alberto Lattuada 1951 Italy Bambini In Città Children in the City Luigi Comencini 1947 Italy Barboni Bums Dino Risi 1946 Italy Carosello Napoletano Neapolitan Carousel Ettore Giannini 1953 Italy Don Bosco Goffredo Alessandrini Italy Due Milioni Per Un Sorriso Two Million for a Smile Carlo Borghesio, Mario Soldati1939 Italy Giorno Di Nozze Wedding Day Raffaello Matarazzo 1942 Italy Gioventù Perduta Lost Youth Pietro Germi 1947 Italy Il Bandito The Bandit Alberto Lattuada 1946 Italy Il Cavagliere Misterioso The Mysterious Knight Riccardo Freda 1948 Italy Il Mercato Delle Facce The Faces Market Valerio Zurlini 1952 Italy L'Imperatore Di Capri The Emperor of Capri Luigi Comencini 1949 Italy La Corona Di Ferro The Iron Crown Alessandro Blasetti 1940 Italy Malombra On a Malom Mario Soldati 1942 Italy Mio Figlio Professore My Son Professor Renato Castellani 1946 Italy Miss Italy Duilio Coletti 1949 Italy Nettezza Urbana Urban Neatness Michelangelo Antonioni 1948 Italy Non C'È Pace Tra Gli Ulivi There is No Peace among the Olive Trees Giuseppe De Santis 1950 Italy Proibito Rubare Forbidden to Steal Luigi Comencini 1948 Italy Riso Amaro Bitter Rice Giuseppe De Santis 1949 Italy Ulisse Mario Camerini 1953 India Un Americano In Vacanza An American on Vacation Luigi Zampa 1945 Italy Una Lezione Di Geometria A Geometry Lesson Virginio Sabel 1948 Italy Una Storia D'Amore A Love Story Mario Camerini 1942 Italy Zazâ Renato Castellani 1942 Italy
Special Program Special ProgramOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country A Star Is Born George Cukor 1954 USA Banker Margayya Banker Architade T.S. Nagabharana India Die Letzte Chance The Last Chance Léopold Lindtberg 1945 Switzerland Drescze Sweaty Wojciech Marczewski 1981 Poland Le Soldat Qui Dort The Sleeping Soldier Jean-Louis Benoit France, Switzerland Nightsongs Marva Nabili USA The Boy With The Green Hair Joseph Losey 1948 USA Venido A Menos Come less Alejandro Azzano Argentina
Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980Original titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country The Man Who Knew Too Much Alfred Hitchcock 1955 USA The Rope Alfred Hitchcock 1948 USA The Trouble With Harry Alfred Hitchcock 1956 USA Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958 USA
Kazimierz Kutz's Silesian Tetralogy Kazimierz Kutz's Silesian TetralogyOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Na Strazy Swej Stac Bede I Shall Always Stand Guard Kazimierz Kutz 1983 Poland Paciorki Jednego Rozanca The Beads of One Rosary Kazimierz Kutz 1980 Poland Perla W Koronie Pearls in the Crown Kazimierz Kutz 1972 Poland Sol Ziemi Czarnej Salt of the Black Earth Kazimierz Kutz 1969 Poland
Parallel Sections The following films were screened in these sections:
Film Critics Week FIPRESCI - International Federation of Film Critics WeekOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)Production country Ardh Satya Govind Nihalani India Dorado (One Way) Reinhard Münster Germany Hasta Cierto Punto Up to a Point Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Cuba Künnyü Testi Sertes Light Bodily Pork György Szomias Hungary Martha Dubronski Beat Kuert Switzerland Memorias Do Carcere Memories Do Carcere Nelson Pereira dos Santos Brazil
Swiss Information Swiss Information - Feature FilmsOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)Production country Er Moretto: Von Liebe Leben He Moretto: Live of Love Simon Bischoff Switzerland Glut Thomas Koerfer Switzerland Haus Im Süden House in the South Sebastian C. Schroeder Switzerland Hunderennen Dog Racing Bernard Safarik Switzerland Le Rapt (La Separation Des Races) Rapstile (Separation of Breeds) Pierre Koralnik, Jacques Probst Switzerland Lieber Vater Dear Father Heinz Rodde Switzerland Mann Ohne Gedächtnis Man without Memory Kurt Gloor Switzerland Prenom Carmen PRESS NAME CARMEN Jean-Luc Godard Switzerland Robert Frank (L'Immagine Della Poesia) Robert Frank (the Image of Poetry) Giampiero Tartagni Switzerland Teddy Baer Rolf Lyssy SwitzerlandSwiss Information - Short And Medium-Length Films Beatrice Michel Rodde Switzerland Erdzeichen, Menschenzeichen Earth Sign, Human Sign Switzerland Flughafen Airport Claudio Moser Switzerland Mongolia Peter Volkart Switzerland Sunset At 7.30 P.M. Hans Glanzmann Switzerland White Noise Franz Walser SwitzerlandSwiss Information - Short And Medium-Length Films - Quickfilm Presents Au Menu Ce Soir On the Menu Tonight Frédéric Maire Switzerland Hep Taxi Bernard Theubet Switzerland
Official Awards International Jury
Golden Leopard: STRANGER THAN PARADISE directed by Jim Jarmusch Silver Leopard: LE ROI DE LA CHINE directed by Fabrice Cazeneuve Bronze Leopard: DONAUWALZER directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger, NUNCA FAMOS TÅO FELIZES directed by Murillo Salles, ALMANAC OF FALL directed by Béla Tarr Special Mention, Official Jury: CAMPO EUROPA directed by Patrice Cologne Source:
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