The 32nd Cannes International Film Festival 1979 took place from May 10th to May 24th 1979.
competition
The following films were shown in the competition of this year's festival:
Movie title
Director
Country of production
Actor (selection)
Apocalypse Now *
Francis Ford Coppola
United States
Marlon Brando , Martin Sheen , Robert Duvall
The tin drum *
Volker Schlöndorff
Germany , France , Poland , Yugoslavia
David Bennent , Mario Adorf , Angela Winkler
Caro papà
Dino Risi
France , Italy , Canada
Vittorio Gassman
The China Syndrome
James Bridges
United States
Jane Fonda , Jack Lemmon , Michael Douglas
The inheritance
Anja Breien
Norway
Anita Björk
The European
James Ivory
Great Britain
Lee Remick
A woman between dog and wolf
André Delvaux
Belgium , France
Marie-Christine Barrault , Rutger Hauer
In the embers of the south
Terrence Malick
United States
Richard Gere , Brooke Adams , Sam Shepard
A little bitch
Jacques Doillon
France
My brilliant career
Gillian Armstrong
Australia
Judy Davis , Sam Neill
Norma Rae
Martin Ritt
United States
Sally Field , Beau Bridges
Without anesthesia
Andrzej Wajda
Poland
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz , Ewa Dałkowska , Andrzej Seweryn
Okupacija u 26 slika
Lordan Zafranovic
Yugoslavia
The Brontë sisters
André Téchiné
France
Isabelle Adjani , Marie-France Pisier , Isabelle Huppert
Series noire
Alain Corneau
France
Patrick Dewaere , Myriam Boyer , Bernard Blier
Sibiriada
Andrei Konchalovsky
Soviet Union
traffic jam
Luigi Comencini
Italy , France , Germany , Spain
Annie Girardot , Fernando Rey , Miou-Miou
The survivors
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba
Hungarian rhapsody
Miklós Jancsó
Hungary
Udo Kier
Victoria
Bo Widerberg
Germany , Sweden
Christiane Hörbiger , Stephan Schwartz , Sigmar Solbach
Woyzeck
Werner Herzog
Germany
Klaus Kinski , Eva Mattes
* = Golden palm
International jury
This year the French writer Françoise Sagan was the jury president. She presided over the following jury: Sergio Amidei , Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud , Luis García Berlanga , Maurice Bessy , Paul Claudon , Jules Dassin , Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács , Robert Roschdestwenski and Susannah York .
Award winners
The jury decided in favor of the film Apocalypse Now, which was still unfinished at the time of the competition, as the winner of the competition and provided it with the Günter Grass film adaptation of the Tin Drum on an equal footing .
Golden Palm : Apocalypse Now and The Tin Drum
Grand Jury Prize: Sibiriada
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome
Best Actress: Sally Field in Norma Rae
Best Director: Terrence Malick
Best actress in a supporting role: Eva Mattes in Woyzeck
Technology award: Norma Rae
Further prices
Web links
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