41st Venice International Film Festival

1984 film festival edition

41st Venice International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival chronology
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: A Year of the Quiet Sun
Artistic director	Gian Luigi Rondi
Festival date	1 – 11 September 1984
Website	Website
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The 41st annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 1984 under the direction of Gian Luigi Rondi.

Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was A Year of the Quiet Sun directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.

The main event of this edition was, out of competition, the premiere of Heimat, an almost 16 hours-long film directed by Edgar Reitz. Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder. The retrospective was dedicated to Luis Buñuel.^[1]^[2]

Jury

The following people comprised the 1984 jury:^[3]

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet
Balthus, French painter
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet poet
Günter Grass, West-German author and visual artist
Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker
Isaac Bashevis Singer, American author
Erica Jong, American writer and poet
Erland Josephson, Swedish actor
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italian filmmakers
Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer

Official Sections

In Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Angela's War	Angelas Krig	Eija-Elina Bergholm	Finland
The Annunciation	Angyali udvozlet	Andràs Jeles	Hungary
Claretta Petacci	Claretta	Pasquale Squitieri	Italy
Dionysos		Jean Rouch	France
Favorites of the Moon	Le favoris de la lune	Otar Ioseliani
Full Moon in Paris	Les nuits de la pleine lune	Eric Rohmer
The Future Is Woman	Il futuro è donna	Marco Ferreri	Italy
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes		Hugh Hudson	United Kingdom
Love on the Ground	L'amour par terre	Jacques Rivette	France
Love Unto Death	L'amour à mort	Alain Resnais	France
Maria's Lovers		Andrei Konchalovsky	United States
The Mirror	Der Spiegel	Erden Kiral	West Germany
La neve nel bicchiere		Florestano Vancini	Italy
No One Twice	Ninguem duas vezes	Jorge Silva Melo	Portugal
Paar		Goutam Ghose	India
A Proper Scandal	Uno scandalo perbene	Pasquale Festa Campanile	Italy
Sister Stella L.		Mike De Leon	Philippines
The Shore	Bereg	Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov	Soviet Union
Sonatine		Micheline Lanctôt	Canada
The Stilts	Los zancos	Carlos Saura	Spain
The Three of Us	Noi tre	Pupi Avati	Italy
Tukuma		Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt	Denmark
Under the Bridge	Da qiao xia mian	Chen Bai	China
Ybris		Gavino Ledda	Italy
A Year of the Quiet Sun	Rok spokojnego słońca	Krzysztof Zanussi	Poland

Out of competition

Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder.

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:^[4]

O pokojniku sve najlepse by Predrag Antonijevic (Yugoslavia)
Beyond The Walls (Meachorei Hasoragim) by Uri Barbash (Israel)
Wildrose by John Hanson (United States)
Final Call (Unerreichbare Nähe) by Dagmar Hirtz (West Germany)
Strikebound by Richard Lowenstein (Austria)
Mosquito on the 10th Floor (Jukkai no mosukîto) by Yoichi Sai (Japan)
End of the Miracle (A csoda vége) by János Vészi (Hungary)

Official Awards

Main Competition

Golden Lion: A Year of the Quiet Sun by Krzysztof Zanussi
Silver Lion for Best First Film: Sonatine by Micheline Lanctôt
Grand Special Jury Prize: Favorites of the Moon by Otar Ioseliani
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Naseeruddin Shah for Paar
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Pascale Ogier for Full Moon in Paris

References

^ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1984". 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.
^ "1st International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2018.