The 37th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 28 August to 8 September, 1980.
Italian screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winners were: Atlantic City directed by Louis Malle and Gloria directed by John Cassavetes.
Jury The following people comprised the 1980 jury: Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter - Jury President Youssef Chahine, Egyptian filmmaker Michel Ciment, French film critic Umberto Eco, Italian and philosopher Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian filmmaker Andrew Sarris, American film critic George Stevens Jr., American filmmaker and producer Margarethe von Trotta, West German filmmaker
Official Sections
Main Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Age of the Earth A Idade da Terra Glauber Rocha Brazil Alexander the Great Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος Theo Angelopoulos Greece Atlantic City Louis Malle France, Canada Eugenio Voltati Eugenio Luigi Comencini Italy Gloria John Cassavetes United States Going in Style Martin Brest United States The Human Factor Otto Preminger United Kingdom The Little Mermaid La petite sirène Roger Andrieux France Long Days Al-ayyam al-tawila Tewfik Saleh Iraq Melvin and Howard Jonathan Demme United States Phobia John Huston Canada Richard's Things Anthony Harvey United Kingdom Story of an Unknown Man Рассказ неизвестного человека Vytautas Žalakevičius Soviet Union Two Lions in the Sun Deux lions au soleil Claude Faraldo France
Out of Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Black Stallion Carroll Ballard United States The Empire Strikes Back Irvin Kershner First Step Premier pas Mohamed Bouamari Algeria, France Lightning Over Water Wim Wenders West Germany, Sweden Loulou Maurice Pialat France My American Uncle Alain Resnais
Officina veneziana English title Original title Director(s) Production country Charlotte Frans Weisz Netherlands Guns Robert Kramer France Les nouveaux romantiques Mohamed Benayat France Christian Rischert West Germany Love Between the Raindrops Lásky mezi kapkami deště Karel Kachyna Czechoslovakia Masoch Franco Brogi Taviani Italy Men or Not Men Uomini e no Valentino Orsini Italy Opera prima Fernando Trueba Spain The Other Woman L'altra donna Peter Del Monte Italy Oxalá António-Pedro Vasconcelos Portugal Petrijin venac Srdjan Karanovic Yugoslavia Pilgrim, Farewell Michael Roemer United States A Priceless Day Ajándék ez a nap Péter Gothár Hungary The Girl from Millelire Street La ragazza di via Mille lire Gianni Serra Italy La répétition générale Werner Schroeter West Germany Sons of the Wind Les enfants du vent Brahim Tsaki Algeria That's Life C'est la vie Paul Vecchiali France Der Aufstand Peter Lilienthal West Germany
Official Awards
Main Competition Golden Lion: Atlantic City by Louis Malle Gloria by John Cassavetes
References
Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996 L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008
External links
Venice Film Festival 1980 Awards on IMDb