40th Venice International Film Festival

40th Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: First Name: Carmen
Festival date	31 August – 11 September 1983
Website	Website

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 Feelings [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

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

External links

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 1983 Awards on IMDb