| Location | Locarno, Switzerland |
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| Founded | 1946 |
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| Artistic director | David Strieff |
| Festival date | Opening: 6 August 1982 Closing: 15 August 1982 |
| Website | LFF |
The 35th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 15 August 1982 in Locarno, Switzerland. [1] This was David Strieff's first year as director following the departure of Jean-Pierre Brossard. [2] A retrospective of Powell and Pressburger films was screened, which coincided with the burgeoning recognition of their work as "auteurs" in film circles. [3] [2] Michael Powell attended the festival and gave a talk about auteurism with Swiss director Markus Imhoof, and Gaumont studio head Daniel Toscan du Plantir. [3]
Douglas Sirk attended the screening of documentary Rainer Werner Fassbinder dreht "Querelle" (Rainer Werner Fassbinder Shoots "Querelle"), and sung its praises telling the director Dieter Schidor, a long-time Fassbinder collaborator, that it was "...a real film, much more than a documentary." [2] [4] This was despite the omission of a 14-minute interview Rainer Werner Fassbinder gave hours before his death that had to be cut due to a German court injunction. [5] [4] Fassbinder's mother got the injunction as she did not want people to see footage of him sick. [5] [4]
No Golden Leopard or any other festival prizes were awarded this year, despite this year being considered a good one at Locarno, because the jury claimed the best films could not be ranked over each other and four films were given Special Mentions. [6] [7] [5] [2] It was revealed that the Jury felt that the mix of art-house films against expensive prestige and commercial productions was unfair. [8] [5] [6] Festival organizers quickly assembled an ad-hoc jury to award a Special Locarno Prize and 10,000 Francs to Das Letzte Loch (The Last Hole) directed by Herbert Achternbusch. [9] [7]
The following films were screened in these sections: [10]
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| At | The Horse | Alo Ozgenturk | Turkey |
| Das Letzte Loch | The Last Hole | Herbert Achternbusch | Germany |
| Forty Deuce | Paul Morrissey | USA | |
| Imagi Ninghtem | Aribam Syam Sharma | India | |
| Klassengeflüster | Class Murmurs | Nino Jacusso, Franz Richenbach | Switzerland |
| La Boda | The Wedding | Thaelman Urgelles | Venezuela |
| La Plaza Del Diamante | The Diamond Square | Francesc Betriu | Spain |
| Les Jocondes | Jean-Daniel Pillault | France | |
| Panelkapcsolat | The Prefab People | Béla Tarr | Hungary |
| Parti Sans Laisser D'Adresse | Left without Leaving an Address | Jacqueline Veuve | Switzerland |
| Processo A Caterina Ross | The Trial of Caterina Ross | Gabriella Rosaleva | Italia |
| Quartetto Basileus | Baselus Quartet | Fabio Carpi | Italia |
| Thorvald Og Linda | The Ballad of Linda | Sven Gronlykke and Lene Gronlykke | Denmark |
| To Ergostasio | The Factory | Tassos Psarras | Greece |
| Traveller | Joe Comerford | Iceland | |
| Uno Entre Muchos | One among many | Ariel Zuñiga | Mexico |
| Wênd Kûuni | God's Gift | Gaston Kaboré | France |
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doro No Kawa | The Side of the Doro | Kohei Oguri | Japan |
| Hammett | Wim Wenders | USA | |
| Irezumi | Tattoo | Yoichi Takabayshi | Japan |
| La Notte Di San Lorenzo | The Night of San Lorenzo | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Italia |
| Megall Az Idö | The Time | Péter Gothar | Hungary |
| Melvin And Howard | Jonathan Demme | USA | |
| Moonlighting | Jerzy Skolimovski | Great Britain | |
| Mourir A Trente Ans | Half a Life | Roman Goupil | France |
| Yol | Way | Serif Gören | Turkey |
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49th Parallel | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1941 | Great Britain | |
| A Canterbury Tale | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1944 | Great Britain | |
| A Matter Of Life And Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 | Great Britain | |
| An Airman's Letter To His Mother | Michael Powell | 1941 | Great Britain | |
| Black Narcissus | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1947 | Great Britain | |
| Gone To Earth | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1950 | Great Britain | |
| I Know Where I'M Going | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1945 | Great Britain | |
| Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | 1960 | Great Britain | |
| The Edge Of The World | Michael Powell | 1937 | Great Britain | |
| The Elusive Pimpernel | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1950 | Great Britain | |
| The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1943 | Great Britain | |
| The Red Shoe'S Sketches | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 | Great Britain | |
| The Small Back Room | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1949 | Great Britain | |
| The Spy In Black | Michael Powell | 1939 | Great Britain | |
| The Tales Of Hoffmann | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1951 | Great Britain | |
| The Thief Of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell | 1940 | Great Britain | |
| The Volunteer | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1943 | Great Britain | |
| The Office of Eisenstein: From Drawings to Films | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bejin Loug | Bezhin Meadow | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1936 | Russia |
| Dnievnik Gloumova | Glumov's Diary | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1923 | Russia |
| Ivan Grozni | Ivan the Terrible | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1944 | Russia |
| Mexican National Week | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Cadena Perpetua | Life Imprisonment | Arturo Ripstein, Arturo Ripstein | 1978 | Mexico |
| Cafe Tacuba | Jorge Prior | 1982 | Mexico | |
| Canoa | Canoe | Felipe Cazals | 1975 | Mexico |
| El Lugar Sin Limites | The Place without Limits | Arturo Ripstein, Arturo Ripstein | 1977 | Mexico |
| En La Trampa | In the Trap | Raul Araiza | 1978 | Mexico |
| La Isla De La Pasion | The Island of the Passion | Emilio Fernandez | 1941 | Mexico |
| Maria De Mi Corazon | MARIA DE MY HEART | Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | 1979 | Mexico |
| Niño Fidencio | Fidencio Child | Nicolas Echevarria | 1980 | Mexico |
| Carte Blanche Sections by Markus Imhoof | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Fat City | John Huston | 1972 | USA | |
| Greed | Erich von Stroheim | USA | ||
| La Grande Illusion | The Great Illusion | Jean Renoir | 1937 | France |
| Los Olvidados | The Forgotten | Luis Buñuel | 1950 | Mexico |
| Opening Night | John Cassavetes | 1977 | USA | |
| Rocco E I Suoi Fratelli | Rocco and His Brothers | Luchino Visconti | 1960 | Italia |
| Out of Program | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Das Schleisische Tor | The Schleisian Gate | Clemens Klopfenstein | Germany | |
| Drimage | Silvio Soldini | USA | ||
| Special Program | ||||
| Effetto Olmi | Olmi Effect | Mario Brenta | Italia | |
| Le Festival De Locarno Dans Le Miroir Du Cine Journal Suisse | The Locarno Festival in the Cine Journal Swiss Mirror | Switzerland | ||
| Novy Vavilon | New Babylon | Grigori Kozintzev, Leonid Trauberg | 1929 | Russia |
| Parsifal | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Germany | ||
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder Dreht Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder Shoots "Querelle" | Dieter Schidor | Germany | |
| Sonezaki Shinju | Sonezaki Pearl | Midori Kurisaki | Japan | |
| Vizsgalat Martinovics Ignac, Szaszvari Apat Es Tarsai Ügyben | Examination Martinovics Ignac, Sasvari Apat and Tarsai Case | Judith Elek | Hungary | |
| FIPRESCI - International Federation of Film Critics Week | ||||
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| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Cinq Et La Peau | Five and the Skin | Pierre Rissient | France | |
| Dakhal | Interfering | Goutam Ghose | India | |
| Die Zeit Böse | The Time Evil | Beat Kuert | Switzerland | |
| Kettevalt Mennyezet | Dowry Ceiling | Pal Gabor | Hungary | |
| Nacht Der Wölfe | Night of the Wolves | Rüdiger Nüchtern | Germany | |
| No Eran Nadie | They Were Nobody | Sergio Bravo-Ramos | Chile | |
| Swiss Information Feature Films | ||||
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| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Claire Et L'Obscur | Claire and the Dark | Costa Haralambis | Switzerland | |
| Das Flugjahr | The Flight Year | Markus Fischer | Switzerland | |
| Die Unterbrochene Spur | The Interrupted Track | Mathias Knauer | Switzerland | |
| Ludwig Hohl | Alexander J. Seiler | Switzerland | ||
| Matlosa | Villi Hermann | Switzerland | ||
| Unsere Eltern Haben Den Ausweis C 1. Schichtwechsel 2. Schulweg Zwischen Zwei Welten | Our Parents Have the ID C 1. Shift Change 2. School Path Between Two Worlds | Eduard Winiger | Switzerland | |
| Windplätze Aufgerissen | Wind Places Opened | Pius Morger | Switzerland | |
| Swiss Information Short And Means Films | ||||
| A L'Ombre De La Peste | To L'ombre of the Plague | Martial Wannaz | Switzerland | |
| Chormann | Lukas Strebel | Switzerland | ||
| Der Geringste Winderstand | The Slightest Resistance | Peter Fischli | Switzerland | |
| Die Verkehrsmeldung | The Traffic Message | Alex Brunner | Switzerland | |
| Il Ponte | The Bridge | Rainaldo Zambrano | Switzerland | |
| Inventaire Lausannois | Lausanne Inventory | Yves Yersin | Switzerland | |
| La Solution! | Maurice Giacomini, Luca Ionel | Switzerland | ||
| Le Ravissement De Frank N. Stein | The Delight of Frank N. Stein | Georges Schwizgebel | Switzerland | |
| Lettre A Freddy Buache | Letter to Freddy Buache | Jean-Luc Godard | Switzerland | |
| Voyage Jusqu'A L'Aube | Voyage to Dawn | Christiane Kolla | Switzerland | |