40th Venice International Film Festival

40th Venice International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival chronology
Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: First Name: Carmen
Festival date	31 August – 11 September 1983
Website	Website
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The 40th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 11 September 1983.^[1]^[2]

Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was First Name: Carmen directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

Jury

The following people comprised the 1983 jury:^[3]

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
Jack Clayton, British director and producer
Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
Leon Hirszman, Brazilian filmmaker
Márta Mészáros, Hungarian filmmaker
Nagisa Oshima, Japanese filmmaker
Gleb Panfilov, Soviet filmmaker
Bob Rafelson, American filmmaker
Ousmane Sembene, Senegalese filmmaker
Mrinal Sen, Indian filmmaker
Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker
Agnès Varda, French filmmaker, photographer and artist

Official Sections

In Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Biquefarre		Georges Rouquier	France
Careful, He Might Hear You		Carl Schultz	Australia
The Deserter	Il disertore	Giuliana Berlinguer	Italy
Edith's Diary	Ediths Tagebuch	Hans W. Geissendörfer	West Germany
Embers	Glut	Thomas Koerfer	Switzerland, West Germany
First Name: Carmen	Prénom Carmen	Jean-Luc Godard	France
Hanna K.		Costa-Gavras	France, Israel, United States
Hotel Central	Хотел Централ	Veselin Branev	Bulgaria
Jogo de Mão		Monique Rutler	Portugal
Life Is a Bed of Roses	La vie est un roman	Alain Resnais	France
A Love in Germany	Eine Liebe in Deutschland	Andrzej Wajda	West Germany, France, Poland
Maria Chapdelaine		Gilles Carle	Canada
The Millennial Bee	Tisícročná včela	Juraj Jakubisko	Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Mother Mary	Мать Мария	Sergey Kolosov	Soviet Union
The Power of Emotion [de]	Die Macht der Gefühle	Alexander Kluge	West Germany
A School Outing	Una gita scolastica	Pupi Avati	Italy
Straight Through the Heart	Mitten ins Herz	Doris Dörrie	West Germany
Streamers		Robert Altman	United States
Sugar Cane Alley	La Rue Cases-Nègres	Euzhan Palcy	France, Martinique
The Turning Point	Der Aufenthalt	Frank Beyer	East Germany

Official Awards

Golden Lion: First Name: Carmen by Jean-Luc Godard
Grand Special Jury Prize: Biquefarre by Georges Rouquier
Silver Lion: Sugar Cane Alley by Euzhan Palcy
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier, Guy Boyd, and George Dzundza for Streamers
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Darling Légitimus for Sugar Cane Alley

Career Golden Lion

Michelangelo Antonioni

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman
Die Macht der Gefühle by Alexander Kluge

Pasinetti Award

Best Film: Zelig by Woody Allen
Best Actor: Carlo Delle Piane for Una gita scolastica
Best Actress: Angela Winkler for Edith's Diary

Pietro Bianchi Award

Luigi Zampa

De Sica Award

Summertime by Massimo Mazzucco
Toxic Love by Claudio Caligari

Technical Prize: Raoul Coutard & François Musy for First Name: Carmen
Best First Work: Sugar Cane Alley by Euzhan Palcy

References

^ "VENICE 1983 – THE 40TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
^ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.