The 40th International Cannes Film Festival 1987 took place from May 7th to May 19th 1987.
competition
The following films were shown in the competition of this year's festival:
Movie title
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Director
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Country of production
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Actor (selection)
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Aria
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Altman , Godard, among others
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Great Britain
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Episodic film by 10 directors
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Barfly
|
Barbet Schroeder
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United States
|
Mickey Rourke , Faye Dunaway
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The architect's belly
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Peter Greenaway
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UK , Italy
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Brian Dennehy , Lambert Wilson
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Champ d'honneur
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Jean-Pierre Denis
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France
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Cris Campion
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Chronicle of a death foretold
|
Francesco Rosi
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Colombia , France , Italy
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Rupert Everett , Ornella Muti , Gian Maria Volonté
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The family
|
Ettore Scola
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France , Italy
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Vittorio Gassman , Stefania Sandrelli , Fanny Ardant
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The glass menagerie
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Paul Newman
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United States
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Joanne Woodward , John Malkovich , Karen Allen
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The sky over Berlin
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Wim Wenders
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Germany , France
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Bruno Ganz , Solveig Dommartin , Otto Sander
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Passionate encounter
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Diane Kurys
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France , Italy
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Peter Coyote , Greta Scacchi , Jamie Lee Curtis
|
Yeelen
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Souleymane Cissé
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Mali , Burkina Faso , France , Germany
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Monanieba
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Tengis Abuladze
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Soviet Union
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Pierre and Djemila
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Gérard Blain
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France
|
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Black eyes
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Nikita Mikhalkov
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Italy
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Marcello Mastroianni , Marthe Keller
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Shinran: Shiroi michi
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Rentarō Mikuni
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Japan
|
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Shy People - threatening silence
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Andrei Konchalovsky
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United States
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Jill Clayburgh , Barbara Hershey , Martha Plimpton
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Satan's sun *
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Maurice Pialat
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France
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Gérard Depardieu , Sandrine Bonnaire
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The stormy life of Joe Orton
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Stephen Frears
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Great Britain
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Gary Oldman , Alfred Molina , Vanessa Redgrave
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Um Trem para as Estrelas
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Carlos Diegues
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Brazil , France
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Az Utolsó kézirat
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Károly Makk
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Hungary
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Jozef Kroner , Aleksander Bardini
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Show
|
Shohei Imamura
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Japan
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* = Golden palm
International jury
This year the jury president was Yves Montand . He was supported by the following members of the jury: Theo Angelopoulos , Gérald Calderon , Danièle Heymann , Elem Klimow , Norman Mailer , Nicola Piovani , Jerzy Skolimowski and Jeremy Thomas .
Award winners
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Golden Palm : The Sun of Satan
- Grand Jury Prize: Monanieba
- Special Jury Prize: The Light and Shinran: Shiroi michi
- Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni in Black Eyes
- Best Actress: Barbara Hershey in Shy People
- Best director: Wim Wenders for Der Himmel über Berlin
- Best individual artistic achievement: Stanley Myers for the score for The Stormy Life of Joe Orton
Other award winners
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