38th Venice International Film Festival

The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.^[1][2]

Jury

• Italo Calvino (head of jury)^[3]
• Marie-Christine Barrault
• Peter Bogdanovich
• Luigi Comencini
• Manoel de Oliveira
• Jesus Fernandez Santos
• Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
• Sergei Solovyov

Films in competition

• Beyroutou el lika by Borhane Alaouié
• Die bleierne Zeit by Margarethe von Trotta
• Bosco d'amore by Alberto Bevilacqua
• Chaalchitra by Mrinal Sen
• Eles não usam black tie by Leon Hirszman
• Forfolgensen by Anja Brejen
• Les Jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz by Catherine Binet
• Kargus by Juan Minon and Miguel A. Trujillo
• Le occasioni di Rosa by Salvatore Piscicelli
• Pad Italije by Lordan Zafranovic
• Piso pisello by Peter Del Monte
• Postrizinj by Jiří Menzel
• Prince of the City by Sidney Lumet
• Silvestre by João César Monteiro
• Sjećaš li se Doli Bel? by Emir Kusturica
• Sogni d'oro by Nanni Moretti
• True Confessions by Ulu Grosbard
• A Zsarnok Szive by Miklós Jancsó
• Zvezdopad by Igor Talankin

Awards

• Golden Lion:
  • Die bleierne Zeit
• Grand Special Jury Prize:
  • Sogni d'oro
  • Eles não usam black tie
• Silver Lion:
  • Sjećaš li se Doli Bel?

References

• Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996
• L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008

External links

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival:1981 at Internet Movie Database
• 38th Venice Film Festival 1981