Venice International Film Festival 1989

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The 46th Venice International Film Festival took place from September 4 to September 15, 1989. Together with Cannes and the Berlinale, one of the most important film festivals in the world, it was directed by Guglielmo Biraghi . In the third year of Biraghi's tenure, the official title of the film festival changed from Mostra Internazionale de Cinéma to Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica . This was done in order to open the festival, which until now had been strictly focused on cinema films, for television and video productions. A planned series Venezia TV did not materialize, however. The film festival still carries the title Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica to this day.

Peter Brooks' almost three-hour theatrical adaptation of Mahabharata , which was shown outside of the competition, was selected as the opening film. This was followed by Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, his wife and their lover , who had to give way in Peter Hall's An Unworthy Woman (both from the UK ) competition.

With the Golden Lion , the top prize of the festival, the Taiwanese favored entry was A City of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-Hsien excellent. A total of 342 performances took place over 14 days. More than two thousand journalists from 55 countries received accreditations. With O Recado das Ilhas by the director and screenwriter Ruy Duarte de Carvalho , a film from the island republic of Cape Verde took part in Venice for the first time.

competition

Countries that were represented in the competition for the Golden Lion for the best feature film (including co-production countries; Taiwan colored gold)

jury

The chair of the jury in the feature film competition was the Soviet actor and director Andrei Smirnov . This was supported by ten other jury members, exclusively filmmakers:

During the course of the festival, the number of jury members decreased from eleven to nine. Melato had a bad fall during the film festival and was forced to take a break while Heymanns left prematurely due to her husband's death.

Movies

23 feature film productions were invited to the official competition. France was represented with a total of four films, including three European co-productions. Italy sent three films to the competition (two of which were co-productions). Reinhard Hauff's film Blue Eyes, shot in Argentina, entered the race as a contribution from the Federal Republic of Germany . In addition, two other films with German participation competed for the Golden Lion - Otar Iosselianis Und es war Licht and Juraj Jakubiskos Sedím na konári a je mi dobre . Switzerland was represented in the competition with the French co-production Die Frau aus Rose Hill by Alain Tanner .

Ettore Scola , Nanni Loy , Kei Kumai , Alain Resnais , Peter Hall and several times Hou Hsiao-Hsien were the favorites for the main prize . A City of Sadness was the first Taiwanese film to win an award at a major festival.

Movie Director country Actor (selection)
Berlin-Jerusalem Amos Gitai France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom Lisa Kreuzer , Rivka Neuman , Markus Stockhausen
Blue-eyed Reinhard Hauff BR Germany Götz George , Miguel Ángel Solá , Julio De Grazia
Ek Din Achanak Mrinal Sen India Shabana Azmi , Shreeram Lagoo , Aparna Sen
Memories of the yellow house João César Monteiro Portugal João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas , Ruy Furtado
Fall groups Vilgot Sjoman Sweden Börje Ahlstedt , Halvar Björk , Ewa Froling
The woman from Rose Hill Alain Tanner France, Shitzerland Marie Gaydu , Jean-Philippe Écoffey , Denise Péron
Island of women Paul Cox Australia Irene Papas , Eva Sitta , Anoja Weerasinghe
I want to go home Alain Resnais France Gérard Depardieu , Laura Benson , Micheline Presle
Layla Taieb Louhichi Algeria, France, Tunisia Anca Nicola , Fatma Ben Saïdane , Abderrahmane Al Rachi
M'agapás? Giorgos Panoussopoulos Greece
Morocco blues Gabriel Axel Denmark, Italy Nikolaj Bjarn Christensen , Nathalie Brusse , Preben Lerdorff Rye
Muzh i 'Tamary Aleksandrovny Olga Narutskaya Soviet Union Aleksandr Galibin, Anna Bazhenova, Valentina Malyavina
New Year in New York Henry Jaglom United States Maggie Wheeler , Gwen Welles , Melanie Winter
Scugnizzi Nanni Loy Italy Leo Gullotta
Sedím na konári a je mi dobre Juraj Jakubisko Czechoslovakia, FR Germany Bolek Polívka
Longing for Australia Jean-Jacques Andrien Belgium, France, Switzerland Fanny Ardant , Jeremy Irons , Tchéky Karyo
A city of sadness Hou Hsiao-Hsien Taiwan Chen Sung-young , Fang Wou-yi , Tony Leung Chiu Wai
The death of a tea master Kei Kumai Japan Eiji Okuda , Toshirō Mifune , Gō Katō
Twisted obsession Fernando Trueba Spain, France Jeff Goldblum , Miranda Richardson , Anémone
And there was light Otar Iosseliani France, FR Germany Moussa Sagna , Alpha Sane , Adbou Sane
An unworthy woman Peter Hall United Kingdom Peggy Ashcroft , Geraldine James , James Fox
This vital anger Lina Wertmüller Italy, France Rutger Hauer , Nastassja Kinski , Peter O'Toole
What time is it? Ettore Scola Italy, France Marcello Mastroianni , Massimo Troisi , Anne Parillaud

Award winners

Films out of competition

In addition to Reinhard Hauffs Blauäugig and Und es war Licht and Sedím na konári a je mi dobre , five other German films were included in the program of the Venice Film Festival. In the midnight series Venezia Notte , which Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, his wife and their lover opened, Peter Fleischmann's It's Not Easy to Be a God , the first joint production of the FRG and the Soviet Union, and Niklaus Schilling's The Breath were premiered. In the series Horizons was Rudolf Thome represented that with Seven Women trilogy forms of love completed, he with the microscope (1987) and The philosopher had begun (1989).

Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade were also featured outside of the competition . The third part of the Indiana Jones tetralogy with Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in the lead roles had to cope with the greatest influx of visitors alongside Nanni Moretti's water polo and communism . Moretti made a political comedy about the crisis in the Italian Communist Party. Krzysztof Kieślowski's ten-part decalogue , which was produced for Polish television and was intended to establish the fame of the Polish director, was also shown in front of full cinemas .

Peter Weir refrained from running his film, The Dead Poets Club, which was later nominated several times for an Oscar . In his opinion, artists don't need to compete against each other like in a sporting competition.

A retrospective of the works of Jean Cocteau took place as part of the film festival . A homage was dedicated to Charlie Chaplin .

Reviews

The British daily The Guardian spoke of a "disappointing competition", with the winning film A City of Sadness being an exception.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called the winners “highly suitable for festivals”, but they would hardly have a chance in everyday cinema life. A few days after the end of the festival, Hans-Dieter Seidel said he saw a dichotomy: “Here, outside of the competition, the goods, which in their structure were presented in a strongly audience-oriented manner and which are likely to cause a sensation in the cinema tomorrow, both positively and negatively; there, within the competition, the food for the few initiated, reverently adored, but quickly forgotten without consequences. ”At the same time, he noticed an“ increasingly fading national identity ”, while the jury, with the exception of Iosseliani's And it was light , awarded its main prizes to contributions that “knew how to strictly maintain their national identity”. According to Seidel, the "half-baked, tangled and streamlined" are increasing so alarmingly that the festival is in danger of losing the weight it deserves.

the daily newspaper also criticized the selection of films. "[...] most of what is on offer is so terribly bad, so merciless at any level that is still in any way debatable that it took a masterpiece to wipe out these gaps," says Arno Widmann. The journalists would have regarded the film offer as a “cold plate”, “of which you can grab a bite or a bite here without ever seeing a film in full.” He said that there was a trend in the subject of “family ties” The parent-child relationship would play a central role in 14 out of 23 films in the competition. Festival director Guglielmo Biraghi would have bet on “Biedermeier”. "His (Biraghis) program preaches the dangers of the big wide world and promotes safety and security."

Otar Iosseliani criticized the 1989 Biennale jury, which would have been “worthy of a provincial festival”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Seidel, Hans-Dieter: A divinely merciless chunk . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 5, 1989, p. 29
  2. ↑ cf. Fainaru, Dan: Cinema for Art's Sake . In: The Jerusalem Post, September 6, 1989 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  3. ↑ a b cf. Malcolm, Derek: Screen: Savage fare for the gourmet - The Venice Film Festival . In: The Guardian, September 7, 1989 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  4. ↑ a b cf. Seidel, Hans-Dieter: World film? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 18, 1989, p. 31
  5. ↑ cf. Gli anni '80 at labiennale.org (Italian; accessed December 5, 2010)
  6. ↑ cf. Gopalakrishnan, Raju ( AP ): Indian Film Festival Opens Amid Controversy . January 10, 1989, International News (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  7. ↑ a b cf. Seidel, Hans-Dieter: A third voice . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 15, 1989, p. 35
  8. ↑ cf. Malcolm, Derek: Screen: Nothing like the dame . In: The Guardian, September 14, 1989 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  9. ↑ cf. AP : Movie From Taiwan Wins Venice Film Festival Award . September 15, 1989 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  10. ↑ cf. Seidel, Hans-Dieter: The victim takes revenge . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 6, 1989, p. 35
  11. ↑ cf. Six world premieres: The German Films in Venice . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 9, 1989, p. 25
  12. ↑ cf. Seidel, Hans-Dieter: Taiwan's grief . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 1989, p. 31
  13. ↑ a b c cf. Widmann, Arno: Evviva la famiglia . In: the daily newspaper, September 16, 1989, p. 16
  14. ↑ cf. Kinski Misses premiere . In: The Globe and Mail, September 5, 1989 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  15. ↑ cf. Malcolm, Derek: Arts: Triumph in Venice . In: The Guardian, September 16, 1989 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  16. ↑ cf. Seidel, Hans-Dieter: Gold for Taiwan . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 16, 1989, p. 27
  17. ↑ cf. Widmann, Arno: And the films? . In: the daily newspaper, September 14, 1989, p. 6