The 36th Locarno Film Festival was held from 5 to 14 August 1983 in Locarno, Switzerland. A new section and competition for TV movies was introduced this year. Ninety-four TV films were submitted with eighteen being selected for the competition, in-all around 70 TV movies were screened at the festival.
At the last year's festival no Golden Leopard, the top prize, was awarded by the Jury after they clashed with festival organizers over the competition featuring both art house and expensive commercial productions that made them hard to compare. To address the problem this year the organizers gave artistic director David Strieff sole power over the film selection rather than using a committee.
Additionally, all films in competition were show under the same conditions, unlike in the year before. The Piazza Grande, the 5,000 seat open-air theater, was reserved for out of competition films that would have bigger audiences.
The opening film was François Truffaut's brand new Confidentially Yours. The festival also held a 20 film retrospective on Japanese filmmaker, Mikio Naruse, whose film Yearning had won Hideko Takamine a best actress award at the 17th Locarno Film Festival 19 years before.
Despite the improvements, the Locarno festival still struggled against its rival the Venice Film Festival, which, one day before the Locarno festival, convinced distributor Orion to take the film Breathless out of Locarno and give it to Venice.
The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to The Princess directed by Pal Erdöss.
Jury, TV competition Alvin H. Marill, American film critic and biographer David Hare, British playwright Franco Rossi, Italian film and TV director Roger Gillioz, Swiss TV director Source:
Official sections
The following films were screened in these sections:
Main competition
Feature films Main Program / Feature Films In Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country Ady Kiraly Katonat! The Princess Pal Erdöss Hungary Alexandre Jean-Francois Amiguet Switzerland Come Dire... Gianluca Fumagalli Italia FerestadehThe Mission Parviz Sayyad Iran, USA Grenzenlos Josef Rödl Germany Hamsin Daniel Wachsman Israel Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads Spike Lee USA Kazoku Gēmu The Family Game Yoshimitsu Morita Japan L'Allegement The Unburdening Marcel Schüpbach Switzerland La Java Des Ombres Roman Goupil France Paesaggio Con Figure Landscape with Figures Silvio Soldini Italia Planeta Krawiec Tailor Planet Jerzy Domaradzki Poland Rodnik Arkadi Sirenko Russia Sargento Getulio Sergeant Getulio Hermano Penna Brazil System Ohne Schatten Closed Circuit Rudolf Thome Germany
Television movies Main Program / TV-Movies In Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country A Voyage Round My Father Alvin Rakoff Great Britain Domino Thomas Brasch Germany Harrys'Game Harry's Game Lawrence Gordon Clark Great Britain Il Passo Falso The False Step Paolo Poeti Italia Ivanhoe Douglas Camfield USA Kentucky Woman Walter Doniger USA L'Isola The Island Pino Passalacqua Italia La Marseillaise Michel Berny France La Metamorphose La Metamorphosis Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe France Life Of The Party: The Story Of Beatrice Lamont Johnson USA Merette Mette Jean-Jacques Lagrange Switzerland Miss Lonelyhearts Michael Dinner USA Non Recuperables Non -Recovery Frank Apprederis France Oldsmobile Kjell Ake Andersson, Kjell Sundvall Sudan That Dangerous Age A. Proshkin Russia The Accident Donald Brittain Canada The Shadow Riders Andrew V. Mc Laglen USA To The Lighthouse Colin Gregg Great Britain
Out of competition (Fuori Concorso) Main Program / Feature Films Out of Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country Ana Cave Margarida Cordeiro, Antonio Réis Portugal Breathless Jim McBride USA Carmen Carlos Saura Spain Colpire Al Cuore Heart Gianni Amelio Italia Dolina Issy Tadeusz Konwicki Poland El Sur The South Víctor Erice Spain L'Equateur Ecuador Serge Gainsbourg France L'Homme Blesse The Man Hurts Patrice Chéreau France Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Nagisa Oshima Japan Narayama Bushi Ko Heijoyama Setsuko Shohei Imamura Japan Pauline A La Plage Pauline at the Beach Éric Rohmer France Remembrance Colin Gregg Great Britain Sans Soleil Sunless Chris Marker France Tiempo De Revancha Revenge Time Adolfo Aristarain Argentina Toute Une Nuit Overnight Chantal Akerman Belgium Visszaesok Retrospective Zsolt Kézdi-Kovacs Hungary Vivement Dimanche Strongly Sunday François Truffaut France
Special sections
Brazilian National Week Brazilian National Week Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country A Queda A Remain Rui Guerra, Nelson Xavier 1976 Brazil Ato De Violencia I Attach Violence Eduardo Escorel 1980 Brazil Eles Nåo Usam Black-Tie They Do not Use Black Tie Leon Hirszman 1981 Brazil O Amuleto De Ogum Ogum's Amulet Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1974 Brazil O Hemen Que Virou Suco The Man Who Became Juice Joåo Batista de Andrade 1980 Brazil Tudo Bem All Good Arnaldo Jabor 1977 Brazil
Carte Blanche to Alain Tanner
Carte Blanche To Alain TannerOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Dyn Amo Dyn I Love Stephen Dwoskin 1972 Great Britain Every Day Except Christmas Lindsay Anderson 1957 Great Britain Meg Ker A Nep And Ker the Nep Miklos Jancso 1972 Hungary Pickpocket Robert Bresson 1959 France Tokyo Monogatari Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu 1953 Japan Two-Lane Blacktop Monte Hellman 1971 USA
Youth and cinema Youth and Cinema (Cinema E Gioventù)Original titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Cammina Cammina Walk Walks Ermanno Olmi Italia Ivonne E Daniela Ivonne and Daniela Brenno Martignoni Switzerland Una Città In Cinema A City in Cinema Andrea Canetta, Nicola Gianni Italia
Out of program & Special program Out of ProgramOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Prime Bande Band Bonus Paolo Gobetti Italia Siamo Donne, 5. Episodio Anna Magnani We are Women, 5. Anna Magnani Episode Luchino Visconti 1953 Italia Tristana Luis Buñuel 1970 France, ItaliaSpecial Program Das Luftschiff The Airship Rainer Simon Simon Germany Femmes Femmes Women Paul Vecchiali 1974 France Tenkosei Tenkosi Nobuhiko Obayaski Japan
Retrospective - Mikio Naruse Retrospective Mikio Naruse (1905-1969)Original titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Ani Imôto Mikio Naruse 1953 Japan Bangiki Bangiko Mikio Naruse 1954 Japan Hataraku Ikka Working Family Mikio Naruse 1939 Japan Hôrôki Horôki Mikio Naruse 1962 Japan Inazuma Lightning Mikio Naruse 1952 Japan Iwashigumo Rugby Mikio Naruse 1958 Japan Kagiri Naki Nodô Mikio Naruse 1934 Japan Kimi To Wakarete Separate from you Mikio Naruse 1933 Japan Koshiben Ganbare Do your Best, Waist Valve Mikio Naruse 1931 Japan Meshi Mikio Naruse 1951 Japan Midareru It Gets Confused Mikio Naruse 1964 Japan Nigareru It's Painful Mikio Naruse 1956 Japan Okâsan Reasonable Mikio Naruse 1952 Japan Onna Ga Kaidan O Agaru Toki When a Woman Goes Up the Stairs Mikio Naruse 1960 Japan Otome-Gokoro Sannin Shimai Maiden - Shin Maternity Hospital Sisters Mikio Naruse 1935 Japan Tsuba Yo Bara No Yo Ni The Roses, the Brim Mikio Naruse 1935 Japan Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro Mikio Naruse 1938 Japan Ugikomo You Don't Worry Mikio Naruse 1955 Japan Yama No Oto Mountain Otoko Mikio Naruse 1954 Japan Yogoto No Yume Nighttime Dreams Mikio Naruse 1935 Japan
Parallel sections The following films were screened in these sections:
Film critics week FIPRESCI - International Federation of Film Critics WeekOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Balamos Stvros Tornes Greece Der Rechte Weg The Right Path Peter Fischli, David Weiss Switzerland In The King Of Prussia Emile de Antonio USA Peppermint Frieden Marianne S.W. Rosenbaum Germany Szerencses Daniel Lucky Daniel Pal Sandor Hungary Un Bruit Qui Court A Short Noise Daniel Laloux, Jean-Pierre Sentier France
Swiss information Swiss Information - Feature FilmsOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)Production country Dans La Ville Blanche In the White City Alain Tanner Switzerland Das Ganze Leben The Whole Life Bruno Moll Switzerland Hecate Daniel Schmid Switzerland L'Argent Money Robert Bresson Switzerland La Mort De Mario Ricci Claude Goretta Switzerland Max Haufler: Der Stumme MAX HAUFLER: There Mute Richard Dindo Switzerland Melzer Heinz Bütler Switzerland Scissere To Split Peter Mettler Canada, Switzerland Transatlantique Transatlantic Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf SwitzerlandSwiss Information - Short And Medium-Length Films Killer Aus Florida Killer from Florida Klaus Schaffhauser Switzerland Les Ailes Du Papillon The Butterfly Wings Michel Rodde SwitzerlandSwiss Information - Short And Medium-Length Films - Cinema Function Geneva Blue Lester Dominique Comtat Comtat Switzerland Gift Catherine Iselin Switzerland Jalang Jalang Malagnou Michel Buhler Switzerland La Nuit Du Fuseki Fuseki Night Leo Kaneman Switzerland Lancelot Du Lac, Phoenix, A' Dam Lancelot Du Lac, Phoenix, a 'Dam Alain Mugnier Switzerland Lati Et Gabor Broad and Gabor Tina Meirelles Switzerland Le Miracle Du Hurlement The Miracle of the Howling Pierre Maillard Switzerland Legal Crime Cédric Herbez Switzerland Remake Jean-Louis Gauthey Switzerland
Official awards International Jury
Golden Leopard: The Princess directed by Pal Erdöss Bronze Leopard: The Mission directed by Parviz Sayyad, JOE’S BED-STUY BARBERSHOP: WE CUT HEADS by Spike Lee, SARGENTO GETULIO by Hermano Penna Special Mention, Official Jury: THE FAMILY GAME by Yusako Matsuda, GRENZENLOS to Siegfried Zimmerschied, L’ALLEGEMENT to Hugues Ryffel Source:
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