The 34th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 27 May 1981. French filmmaker Jacques Deray served as jury president for the main competition.
Opening film | Three Brothers |
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Closing film | Honeysuckle Rose |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or: Man of Iron[2] |
No. of films | 22 (In Competition)[3] |
Festival date | 13 May 1981 | – 27 May 1981
Website | festival-cannes |
Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the film Man of Iron.[4][5]
The festival opened with Three Brothers by Francesco Rosi,[6][7] and closed with Honeysuckle Rose by Jerry Schatzberg.[8]
Juries
edit- Jacques Deray, French filmmaker - Jury President[9]
- Ellen Burstyn, American actress
- Jean-Claude Carrière, French author
- Robert Chazal, French film critic
- Attilio d'Onofrio, Italian
- Christian Defaye, Swiss journalist
- Carlos Diegues, Brazilian filmmaker
- Antonio Gala, Spanish author
- Andrei Petrov, Soviet composer
- Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
Official selection
editIn Competition
editThe following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Angels of Iron | Engel aus Eisen | Thomas Brasch | West Germany |
Beau Pere | Beau-père | Bertrand Blier | France |
Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson | United Kingdom, United States | |
Cserepek | István Gaál | Hungary | |
Excalibur | John Boorman | United Kingdom, United States | |
Faktas | Факт | Almantas Grikevičius | Soviet Union |
Flame Top | Tulipää | Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehto | Finland |
Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | United States | |
Light Years Away | Les Années lumière | Alain Tanner | France, Switzerland |
Looks and Smiles | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | |
Man of Iron | Człowiek z żelaza | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
Mephisto | István Szabó | Hungary, Austria, West Germany | |
Montenegro | Montenegro eller Pärlor och svin | Dušan Makavejev | Sweden |
National Heritage | Patrimonio nacional | Luis García Berlanga | Spain |
Neige | Juliet Berto | France | |
The Ones and the Others | Les Uns et les Autres | Claude Lelouch | |
Passion of Love | Passione d'amore | Ettore Scola | Italy |
Possession | Andrzej Żuławski | France, West Germany | |
Quartet | James Ivory | France, United Kingdom | |
The Skin | La pelle | Liliana Cavani | Italy |
Thief | Michael Mann | United States | |
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man | La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
Un Certain Regard
editThe following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:[3]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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...And God Created Them | Díos los Cría... | Jacobo Morales | Puerto Rico |
Arising from the Surface | सतह से उठता आदमी | Mani Kaul | India |
The Big Night Bathe | Голямото нощно къпане | Binka Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria |
Cerromaior | Luís Filipe Rocha | Portugal | |
Eijanaika | ええじゃないか | Shōhei Imamura | Japan |
I Love You | Eu Te Amo | Arnaldo Jabor | Brazil |
Let There Be Light | John Huston | United States | |
Memoirs of a Survivor | David Gladwell | United Kingdom | |
Un moment de bonheur | Yves Laumet | France | |
Mur Murs | Agnès Varda | France | |
A Thousand Little Kisses | אלף נשיקות קטנות | Mira Recanati | Israel |
The Witness | A tanú | Péter Bacsó | Hungary |
Who's Singin' Over There? | Ko to tamo peva | Slobodan Šijan | Yugoslavia |
You Love Only Once | Samo jednom se ljubi | Rajko Grlić |
Out of Competition
editThe following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Anima – Symphonie phantastique | Titus Leber | Austria | |
Blood Wedding | Bodas de sangre | Carlos Saura | Spain |
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China | Murray Lerner | United States, China | |
Hands Up! | Ręce do góry | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland |
Havoc in Heaven (1961) | 大鬧天宮 | Wan Laiming | China |
Honeysuckle Rose (closing film) | Jerry Schatzberg | United States | |
The Fly (short) | A légy | Ferenc Rofusz | Hungary |
The Postman Always Rings Twice | Bob Rafelson | United States | |
Street Angel (1937) | 馬路天使 | Yuan Muzhi | China |
This Is Elvis | Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt | United States | |
Three Brothers (opening film) | Tre fratelli | Francesco Rosi | Italy, France |
Troubled Laughter | 苦惱人的笑 | Yang Yanjin and Deng Yimin | China |
Short Films Competition
editThe following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
- Alephah by Gérald Frydman
- André Derain, thèmes et variations by François Porcile
- Dilemma by John Halas
- Diskzokej by Jiří Barta
- Král a skritek by Lubomír Beneš
- Manövergäste by G. Nicolas Hayek
- Maskirani razbojnik by Petar Lalovic
- Moto Perpetuo by Béla Vajda
- Ne me parlez plus jamais d'amour by Sylvain Madigan
- Le Rat by Elisabeth Huppert
- Ravnovesie by Boiko Kanev
- Trcanje by Dusko Sevo
- Zea by André Leduc
Parallel sections
editInternational Critics' Week
editThe following feature films were screened for the 20th International Critics' Week (20e Semaine de la Critique):[10]
Directors' Fortnight
editThe following films were screened for the 1981 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[11]
- Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
- Alligator Shoes by Clay Borris
- Americana by David Carradine
- Act of Violence by Eduardo Escorel
- Beddegama by Lester James Peries
- Bolivar, Sinfonia Tropical by Diego Rísquez
- Bona by Lino Brocka
- Chakra, Vicious Circle by Rabindra Dharmaraj
- Conversa Acabada by João Botelho
- Desperado City by Vadim Glowna
- No Mercy, No Future by Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Francisca by Manoel De Oliveira
- The Vulture by Yaky Yosha
- The Mark of the Beast by Pieter Verhoeff
- In Defense of People by Rafigh Pooya
- Fruits of Passion by Shuji Terayama
- The Plouffe Family by Gilles Carle
- Memorias Do Medo by Alberto Graça
- Narcissus and Psyche by Gábor Bódy
- Seuls by Francis Reusser
- Tell Me A Riddle by Lee Grant
- Wizja lokalna 1901 by Filip Bajon
- Short films
- Evolution by Sheila Graber
- Face To Face by Sheila Graber
- Le Miroir Vivant by Eunice Hutchins, Norbert Barnich
- Michelangelo by Sheila Graber
- Music For Film by Jean-Claude Wouters
- Pour Trois Minutes De Gloire by Jean-Claude Bronckart
- T.V.O. by Carlos Castillo
- The Electric Disco Chicken by Bob Goodness
- Tous Les Garcons by Yves Laberge
- Tre Per Eccesso by Giampierro Vinciguerra
- Uno Para Todos, Todos Para Todos by Carlos Castillo
Official Awards
editIn Competition
edit- Palme d'Or: Man of Iron by Andrzej Wajda[2]
- Grand Prix: Light Years Away by Alain Tanner
- Best Screenplay: István Szabó for Mephisto
- Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani for Quartet and Possession
- Best Actor: Ugo Tognazzi for Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
- Best Supporting Actress: Yelena Solovey for Faktas
- Best Supporting Actor: Ian Holm for Chariots of Fire
- Best Artistic Contribution: Excalibur by John Boorman
- Moto Perpetuo by Béla Vajda
- Jury Prize:
- Le Rat by Elisabeth Huppert
- Zea by André Leduc
Independent Awards
edit- Malou by Jeanine Meerapfel (International Critics' Week)[12]
- Mephisto by István Szabó (In competition)
Commission Supérieure Technique
edit- Technical Grand Prize: Les Uns et les Autres for the sound quality
- Man of Iron by Andrzej Wajda[13]
- Special Mention:
Young Cinema Award
editReferences
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- ^ "34ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "1981 - Patrimoine National (National Heritage)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "Out of Competition - Opening film - Tre Fratelli". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "The opening films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "The closing films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Juries 1981: Feature film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.
- ^ "20e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1981". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ "Quinzaine 1981". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1981". fipresci.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "Jury Œcuménique 1981". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ a b "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1981". imdb.com. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
Media
edit- INA: The parallel festival, Cannes 1981 (commentary in French)
- INA: Threat of suicide Italian-style for Ugo Tognazzi (in French)
External links
edit- 1981 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1981 Archived 2019-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival:1981 at Internet Movie Database