The 44th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 9 September 1987.
Greek actress and singer Irene Papas was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was Au revoir les enfants directed by Louis Malle.
Jury The following people comprised the 1987 jury: Irene Papas, Greek actress and singer - Jury President Sabine Azéma, French actress and singer John Bailey, American cinematographer and director Anja Breien, Norwegian director Ana Carolina, Brazilian filmmaker Beatriz Guido, Argentine author and screenwriter Carlo Lizzani, Italian filmmaker and film critic Károly Makk, Hungarian filmmaker Sergei Solovyov, Soviet filmmaker Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer Michael York, British actor Regina Ziegler, West German producer
Official Sections The following films were selected to be screened:
In Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country Au revoir les enfants Louis Malle France, West Germany, Italy A Boy from Calabria Un ragazzo di Calabria Luigi Comencini Italy Comedy! Comédie! Jacques Doillon France Deaf to the City Le sourd dans la ville Mireille Dansereau Canada Divine Words Divinas palabras José Luis García Sánchez Spain The Ghost Valley La vallée fantôme Alain Tanner Switzerland The Gold Rimmed Glasses Gli occhiali d'oro Giuliano Montaldo Italy Hip Hip Hurrah! Hip hip hurra! Kjell Grede Sweden House of Games David Mamet United States If the Sun Never Returns Si le soleil ne revenait pas Claude Goretta France, Switzerland Long Live the Lady! Lunga vita alla signora! Ermanno Olmi Italy Made in Heaven Alan Rudolph United States Maurice James Ivory United Kingdom Motherland Hotel Anayurt Oteli Ömer Kavur Turkey Mountains Of The Moon O Desejado Paulo Rocha Portugal Oridathu G. Aravindan India Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game Плюмбум, или опасная игра Vadim Abdrashitov Soviet Union Quartiere Silvano Agosti Italy Season of Monsters Szörnyek évadja Miklós Jancsó Hungary The Surrogate Woman 씨받이 Im Kwon-taek South Korea The Tale of Ruby Rose Roger Scholes Australia A Taxing Woman マルサの女 Juzo Itami Japan The Veiled Man L'homme voilé Maroun Bagdadi Lebanon, France
Out of Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country Boyfriends and Girlfriends L'Ami de mon amie Éric Rohmer France The Dead John Huston United Kingdom Julia and Julia Giulia e Giulia Peter Del Monte Italy The Untouchables Brian De Palma United States The Witches of Eastwick George MillerSpecial Bertolucci Nostalgia di un colossal Paolo Brunatto Italy
Retrospectives English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countryTribute to Cinecittà Le Amiche Michelangelo Antonioni 1955 Italy Bellissima Luchino Visconti 1951 The Betrothed I promessi sposi Mario Camerini 1941 The Desert of the Tartars Il deserto dei tartari Valerio Zurlini 1976 Italy, France, West Germany, Iran La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini 1960Italy, France General Della Rovere Il generale Della Rovere Roberto Rossellini 1959 The Iron Crown La corona di ferro Alessandro Blasetti 1941Italy Luciano Serra, Pilot Luciano Serra pilota Goffredo Alessandrini 1938 Teresa Venerdì Vittorio De Sica 1941Tribute to Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About EveJoseph L. Mankiewicz 1950United States The Barefoot Contessa 1954 United States, ItalyCarol for Another Christmas 1964 United States Cleopatra 1963 Dragonwyck 1946 Escape 1948 United Kingdom, United States5 Fingers 1952 United States The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Guys and Dolls 1955 The Honey Pot 1967 House of Strangers 1949 Julius Caesar 1953 King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1970 The Late George Apley Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1947 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 No Way Out 1950People Will Talk 1951 The Quiet American 1958 Sleuth 1972 United Kingdom, United States Somewhere in the Night 1946 United StatesSuddenly, Last Summer 1959There Was a Crooked Man... 1970
Independent Sections Venice International Film Critics' Week The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section: English title Original title Director(s) Year The Burglar Vzlomšcik Valerij Ogorodnikov Soviet Union Dragon Chow Drachenfutter Jan Schütte West Germany, Switzerland Hidden City Stephen Poliakoff United Kingdom Italian Night Notte Italiana Carlo MazzacuratiItaly Killing Time Poussière d'ange Edouard NiermansFrance West Germany True and Faithful Account Relação fiel e verdadeira Margarida Gil Portugal
Official Awards
Main Competition Golden Lion: Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle Grand Special Jury Prize: Hip hip hurra! by Kjell Grede Silver Lion: Maurice by James Ivory Long Live the Lady! by Ermanno Olmi Golden Osella: Best Screenplay: David Mamet for House of Games Best Cinematography: Sten Holmberg for Hip hip hurra! Best Score: Richard Robbins for Maurice Best Set Design: Nanà Cecchi & Luciano Ricceri for The Gold Rimmed Glasses Honorable Mention: Season of Monsters by Miklós Jancsó Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Hugh Grant & James Wilby for Maurice Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Kang Soo-yeon for The Surrogate Woman
Career Golden Lion Joseph L. Mankiewicz Luigi Comencini
Independent Awards
The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game by Vadim Abdrashitov
Golden Ciak Best Film: House of Games by David Mamet Best Actor: Bernard Giraudeau for The Veiled Man Best Actress: Kelly McGillis for Made in Heaven Special Golden Ciak: Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle
'Commendatore al merito della Repubblica' Medal Moritz de Hadeln'
FIPRESCI Prize Anayurt Oteli by Ömer Kavur Long Live the Lady! by Ermanno Olmi Critics Week: Vzlomshchik by Valeri Ogorodnikov
OCIC Award Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle Honorable Mention: Deaf to the City by Mireille Dansereau
UNICEF Award Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle
UNESCO Award Dragon Chow by Jan Schütte
Pasinetti Award Best Film: House of Games by David Mamet Best Actor: Gian Maria Volonté for A Boy from Calabria Best Actress: Melita Jurisic for The Tale of Ruby Rose
Pietro Bianchi Award Dino Risi
Elvira Notari Prize The Tale of Ruby Rose by Roger Scholes
Sergio Trasatti Award Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle
Cinecritica Award Dragon Chow by Jan Schütte House of Games by David Mamet
Award of the Society for Psychology Long Live the Lady! by Ermanno Olmi References
External links
Venice Film Festival 1987 Awards on IMDb