37th Venice International Film Festival

37th Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: Atlantic City Gloria
Festival date	28 August – 8 September 1980
Website	Website
Venice Film Festival chronology
38th 36th

The 37th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 28 August to 8 September, 1980. ^{[1] [2]}

Italian screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winners were: Atlantic City directed by Louis Malle and Gloria directed by John Cassavetes.

Jury

The following people comprised the 1980 jury: ^[3]

• Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter - Jury President
• Youssef Chahine, Egyptian filmmaker
• Michel Ciment, French film critic
• Umberto Eco, Italian and philosopher
• Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian filmmaker
• Andrew Sarris, American film critic
• George Stevens Jr., American filmmaker and producer
• Margarethe von Trotta, West German filmmaker

Official Sections

Main Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Age of the Earth	A Idade da Terra	Glauber Rocha	Brazil
Alexander the Great	Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece
Atlantic City		Louis Malle	France, Canada
Eugenio	Voltati Eugenio	Luigi Comencini	Italy
Gloria		John Cassavetes	United States
Going in Style		Martin Brest	United States
The Human Factor		Otto Preminger	United Kingdom
The Little Mermaid	La petite sirène	Roger Andrieux	France
Long Days	Al-ayyam al-tawila	Tewfik Saleh	Iraq
Melvin and Howard		Jonathan Demme	United States
Phobia		John Huston	Canada
Richard's Things		Anthony Harvey	United Kingdom
Story of an Unknown Man	Рассказ неизвестного человека	Vytautas Žalakevičius	Soviet Union
Two Lions in the Sun	Deux lions au soleil	Claude Faraldo	France

Officina veneziana

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Charlotte		Frans Weisz	Netherlands
Guns		Robert Kramer	France
Les nouveaux romantiques		Mohamed Benayat	France
Lena Rais  [ de ]		Christian Rischert	West Germany
Love Between the Raindrops	Lásky mezi kapkami deště	Karel Kachyna	Czechoslovakia
Masoch		Franco Brogi Taviani	Italy
Men or Not Men	Uomini e no	Valentino Orsini	Italy
Opera prima		Fernando Trueba	Spain
The Other Woman	L'altra donna	Peter Del Monte	Italy
Oxalá		António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Portugal
Petrijin venac		Srdjan Karanovic	Yugoslavia
Pilgrim, Farewell		Michael Roemer	United States
A Priceless Day	Ajándék ez a nap	Péter Gothár	Hungary
La ragazza di via Mille lire		Gianni Serra	Italy
La répétition générale		Werner Schroeter	West Germany
Sons of the Wind	Les enfants du vent	Brahim Tsaki	Algeria
That's Life	C'est la vie	Paul Vecchiali	France
The Uprising  [ de ]	Der Aufstand	Peter Lilienthal	West Germany

Out of Competition

• The Empire Strikes Back by Irvin Kershner
• The Black Stallion by Carroll Ballard
• Lightning Over Water by Wim Wenders
• Loulou by Maurice Pialat
• My American Uncle by Alain Resnais
• Premier pas by Mohamed Bouamari

Official Awards

Main Competition

• Golden Lion:
  • Atlantic City by Louis Malle
  • Gloria by John Cassavetes

References

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

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

External links

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 1980 Awards on IMDb