| Opening film | Confidentially Yours directed by François Truffaut |
|---|---|
| Location | Locarno, Switzerland |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Golden Leopard: The Princess directed by Pal Erdöss |
| Artistic director | David Strieff |
| Festival date | Opening: 5 August 1983 Closing: 14 August 1983 |
| Website | LFF |
The 36th Locarno Film Festival was held from 5 to 14 August 1983 in Locarno, Switzerland. [1] A new section and competition for TV movies was introduced this year. Ninety-four TV films were submitted with eighteen being selected for the competition, in-all around 70 TV movies were screened at the festival. [1] [2]
At the last year's festival no Golden Leopard, the top prize, was awarded by the Jury after they clashed with festival organizers over the competition featuring both art house and expensive commercial productions that made them hard to compare. To address the problem this year the organizers gave artistic director David Strieff sole power over the film selection rather than using a committee. [3]
Additionally, all films in competition were show under the same conditions, unlike in the year before. The Piazza Grande, the 5,000 seat open-air theater, was reserved for out of competition films that would have bigger audiences. [3]
The opening film was François Truffaut's brand new Confidentially Yours . The festival also held a 20 film retrospective on Japanese filmmaker, Mikio Naruse, [3] whose film Yearning had won Hideko Takamine a best actress award at the 17th Locarno Film Festival 19 years before. [4] [5]
Despite the improvements, the Locarno festival still struggled against its rival the Venice Film Festival, which, one day before the Locarno festival, convinced distributor Orion to take the film Breathless out of Locarno and give it to Venice. [3]
The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to The Princess directed by Pal Erdöss. [6] [4]
Source: [1]
The following films were screened in these sections: [7]
| Main Program / Feature Films In Competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Ady Kiraly Katonat! | The Princess | Pal Erdöss | Hungary |
| Alexandre | Jean-Francois Amiguet | Switzerland | |
| Come Dire... | Gianluca Fumagalli | Italia | |
| Ferestadeh | The Mission | Parviz Sayyad | Iran, USA |
| Grenzenlos | Josef Rödl | Germany | |
| Hamsin | Daniel Wachsman | Israel | |
| Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads | Spike Lee | USA | |
| Kazoku Gēmu | The Family Game | Yoshimitsu Morita | Japan |
| L'Allegement | The Unburdening | Marcel Schüpbach | Switzerland |
| La Java Des Ombres | Roman Goupil | France | |
| Paesaggio Con Figure | Landscape with Figures | Silvio Soldini | Italia |
| Planeta Krawiec | Tailor Planet | Jerzy Domaradzki | Poland |
| Rodnik | Arkadi Sirenko | Russia | |
| Sargento Getulio | Sergeant Getulio | Hermano Penna | Brazil |
| System Ohne Schatten | Closed Circuit | Rudolf Thome | Germany |
Main Program / TV-Movies In Competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| A Voyage Aroung My Father | Alvin Rakoff | Great Britain | |
| Domino | Thomas Brasch | Germany | |
| Harrys'Game | Harry's Game | Lawrence Gordon Clark | Great Britain |
| Il Passo Falso | The False Step | Paolo Poeti | Italia |
| Ivanhoe | Douglas Camfield | USA | |
| Kentucky Woman | Walter Doniger | USA | |
| L'Isola | The Island | Pino Passalacqua | Italia |
| La Marseillaise | Michel Berny | France | |
| La Metamorphose | La Metamorphosis | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | France |
| Life Of The Party: The Story Of Beatrice | Lamont Johnson | USA | |
| Merette | Mette | Jean-Jacques Lagrange | Switzerland |
| Miss Lonelyhearts | Michael Dinner | USA | |
| Non Recuperables | Non -Recovery | Frank Apprederis | France |
| Oldsmobile | Kjell Ake Andersson, Kjell Sundvall | Sudan | |
| That Dangerous Age | A. Proshkin | Russia | |
| The Accident | Donald Brittain | Canada | |
| The Shadow Riders | Andrew V. Mc Laglen | USA | |
| To The Lighthouse | Colin Gregg | Great Britain | |
Main Program / Feature Films Out of Competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Ana | Cave | Margarida Cordeiro, Antonio Réis | Portugal |
| Breathless | Jim McBride | USA | |
| Carmen | Carlos Saura | Spain | |
| Colpire Al Cuore | Heart | Gianni Amelio | Italia |
| Dolina Issy | Tadeusz Konwicki | Poland | |
| El Sur | The South | Víctor Erice | Spain |
| L'Equateur | Ecuador | Serge Gainsbourg | France |
| L'Homme Blesse | The Man Hurts | Patrice Chéreau | France |
| Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | Japan | |
| Narayama Bushi Ko | Heijoyama Setsuko | Shohei Imamura | Japan |
| Pauline A La Plage | Pauline at the Beach | Éric Rohmer | France |
| Remembrance | Colin Gregg | Great Britain | |
| Sans Soleil | Sunless | Chris Marker | France |
| Tiempo De Revancha | Revenge Time | Adolfo Aristarain | Argentina |
| Toute Une Nuit | Overnight | Chantal Akerman | Belgium |
| Visszaesok | Retrospective | Zsolt Kézdi-Kovacs | Hungary |
| Vivement Dimanche | Strongly Sunday | François Truffaut | France |
| Brazilian National Week | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| A Queda | A Remain | Rui Guerra, Nelson Xavier | 1976 | Brazil |
| Ato De Violencia | I Attach Violence | Eduardo Escorel | 1980 | Brazil |
| Eles Nåo Usam Black-Tie | They Do not Use Black Tie | Leon Hirszman | 1981 | Brazil |
| O Amuleto De Ogum | Ogum's Amulet | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | 1974 | Brazil |
| O Hemen Que Virou Suco | The Man Who Became Juice | Joåo Batista de Andrade | 1980 | Brazil |
| Tudo Bem | All Good | Arnaldo Jabor | 1977 | Brazil |
| Carte Blanche To Alain Tanner | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Dyn Amo | Dyn I Love | Stephen Dwoskin | 1972 | Great Britain |
| Every Day Except Christmas | Lindsay Anderson | 1957 | Great Britain | |
| Meg Ker A Nep | And Ker the Nep | Miklos Jancso | 1972 | Hungary |
| Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | 1959 | France | |
| Tokyo Monogatari | Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | 1953 | Japan |
| Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | 1971 | USA | |
| Youth and Cinema (Cinema E Gioventù) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Cammina Cammina | Walk Walks | Ermanno Olmi | Italia | |
| Ivonne E Daniela | Ivonne and Daniela | Brenno Martignoni | Switzerland | |
| Una Città In Cinema | A City in Cinema | Andrea Canetta, Nicola Gianni | Italia | |
| Out of Program | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Prime Bande | Band Bonus | Paolo Gobetti | Italia | |
| Siamo Donne, 5. Episodio Anna Magnani | We are Women, 5. Anna Magnani Episode | Luchino Visconti | 1953 | Italia |
| Tristana | Luis Buñuel | 1970 | France, Italia | |
| Special Program | ||||
| Das Luftschiff | The Airship | Rainer Simon Simon | Germany | |
| Femmes Femmes | Women | Paul Vecchiali | 1974 | France |
| Tenkosei | Tenkosi | Nobuhiko Obayaski | Japan | |
| Retrospective Mikio Naruse (1905-1969) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Ani Imôto | Mikio Naruse | 1953 | Japan | |
| Bangiki | Bangiko | Mikio Naruse | 1954 | Japan |
| Hataraku Ikka | Working Family | Mikio Naruse | 1939 | Japan |
| Hôrôki | Horôki | Mikio Naruse | 1962 | Japan |
| Inazuma | Lightning | Mikio Naruse | 1952 | Japan |
| Iwashigumo | Rugby | Mikio Naruse | 1958 | Japan |
| Kagiri Naki Nodô | Mikio Naruse | 1934 | Japan | |
| Kimi To Wakarete | Separate from you | Mikio Naruse | 1933 | Japan |
| Koshiben Ganbare | Do your Best, Waist Valve | Mikio Naruse | 1931 | Japan |
| Meshi | Mikio Naruse | 1951 | Japan | |
| Midareru | It Gets Confused | Mikio Naruse | 1964 | Japan |
| Nigareru | It's Painful | Mikio Naruse | 1956 | Japan |
| Okâsan | Reasonable | Mikio Naruse | 1952 | Japan |
| Onna Ga Kaidan O Agaru Toki | When a Woman Goes Up the Stairs | Mikio Naruse | 1960 | Japan |
| Otome-Gokoro Sannin Shimai | Maiden - Shin Maternity Hospital Sisters | Mikio Naruse | 1935 | Japan |
| Tsuba Yo Bara No Yo Ni | The Roses, the Brim | Mikio Naruse | 1935 | Japan |
| Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro | Mikio Naruse | 1938 | Japan | |
| Ugikomo | You Don't Worry | Mikio Naruse | 1955 | Japan |
| Yama No Oto | Mountain Otoko | Mikio Naruse | 1954 | Japan |
| Yogoto No Yume | Nighttime Dreams | Mikio Naruse | 1935 | Japan |
The following films were screened in these sections: [7]
| FIPRESCI - International Federation of Film Critics Week | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Year | Production Country |
| Balamos | Stvros Tornes | Greece | ||
| Der Rechte Weg | The Right Path | Peter Fischli, David Weiss | Switzerland | |
| In The King Of Prussia | Emile de Antonio | USA | ||
| Peppermint Frieden | Marianne S.W. Rosenbaum | Germany | ||
| Szerencses Daniel | Lucky Daniel | Pal Sandor | Hungary | |
| Un Bruit Qui Court | A Short Noise | Daniel Laloux, Jean-Pierre Sentier | France | |
| Swiss Information - Feature Films | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Title | English Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Dans La Ville Blanche | In the White City | Alain Tanner | Switzerland |
| Das Ganze Leben | The Whole Life | Bruno Moll | Switzerland |
| Hecate | Daniel Schmid | Switzerland | |
| L'Argent | Money | Robert Bresson | Switzerland |
| La Mort De Mario Ricci | Claude Goretta | Switzerland | |
| Max Haufler: Der Stumme | MAX HAUFLER: There Mute | Richard Dindo | Switzerland |
| Melzer | Heinz Bütler | Switzerland | |
| Scissere | To Split | Peter Mettler | Switzerland |
| Transatlantique | Transatlantic | Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf | Switzerland |
| Swiss Information - Short And Medium-Length Films | |||
| Killer Aus Florida | Killer from Florida | Klaus Schaffhauser | Switzerland |
| Les Ailes Du Papillon | The Butterfly Wings | Michel Rodde | Switzerland |
| Swiss Information - Short And Medium-Length Films - Cinema Function Geneva | |||
| Blue Lester | Dominique Comtat Comtat | Switzerland | |
| Gift | Catherine Iselin | Switzerland | |
| Jalang Jalang Malagnou | Michel Buhler | Switzerland | |
| La Nuit Du Fuseki | Fuseki Night | Leo Kaneman | Switzerland |
| Lancelot Du Lac, Phoenix, A' Dam | Lancelot Du Lac, Phoenix, a 'Dam | Alain Mugnier | Switzerland |
| Lati Et Gabor | Broad and Gabor | Tina Meirelles | Switzerland |
| Le Miracle Du Hurlement | The Miracle of the Howling | Pierre Maillard | Switzerland |
| Legal Crime | Cédric Herbez | Switzerland | |
| Remake | Jean-Louis Gauthey | Switzerland | |