Location | Venice, Italy |
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Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead |
Festival date | 4 – 14 September 1990 |
Website | Website |
The 47th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 4 to 14 September 1990. [1] [2]
American writer Gore Vidal was the Jury President of the main competition.
The Golden Lion winner was Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead directed by Tom Stoppard.
The following people comprised the 1990 jury: [3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The African Woman | Die Rückkehr | Margarethe von Trotta | West Germany, Italy |
An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, United States | |
Boys on the Outside | Ragazzi fuori | Marco Risi | Italy |
Collapse | Raspad | Mikhail Belikov | Soviet Union |
Farewell to Autumn | Pozegnanie jesieni | Mariusz Trelinski | Poland |
The Gamblers | Spieler | Dominik Graf | West Germany |
Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | United States | |
I Hired a Contract Killer | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Sweden | |
Karartma geceleri | Yusuf Kurcenly | Turkey | |
Laura Adler's Last Love Affair | אהבתה האחרונה של לורה אדלר | Avraham Heffner | Israel |
Martha and I | Marta a já | Jiri Weiss | Czechoslovakia, West Germany |
Mo' Better Blues | Spike Lee | United States | |
The Moon in the Mirror | La luna en el espejo | Silvio Caiozzi | Chile |
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | James Ivory | United Kingdom | |
No Fear, No Die | S'en fout la mort | Claire Denis | France |
The Only Witness | Edinstveniyat svidetel | Mikhail Pandoursky | Bulgaria |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | United Kingdom | |
Sirup | Helle Ryslinge | Denmark | |
Tales of a Golden Geisha | あげまん | Juzo Itami | Japan |
Traces of an Amorous Life | Tracce di vita amorosa | Peter Del Monte | Italy |
Walls | Mathilukal | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | India |
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section: [4]
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