27th Venice International Film Festival
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Festival date | 28 August – 10 September 1966 |
| Website | Website |
The 27th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 10 September 1966.[1]
Jury[]
- Giorgio Bassani (Italy) (head of jury)[2]
- Lindsay Anderson (UK)
- Luboš Bartošek (Czechoslovakia)
- Michel Butor (France)
- Lewis Jacobs (USA)
- Lev Kuleshov (Soviet Union)
- Joris Ivens (Netherlands)
Films in competition[]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| (lit.) "Balthazar, at Random" | Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | France |
| The Wild Angels | Roger Corman | United States | |
| The Battle of Algiers | La battaglia di Algeri | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy, Algeria |
| The Search | Angelino Fons | Spain | |
| Yesterday Girl | Abschied von gestern | Alexander Kluge | West Germany |
| Chappaqua | Conrad Rooks | USA | |
| The Game Is Over | La Curée | Roger Vadim | France |
| Fahrenheit 451 | François Truffaut | USA | |
| Night Games | Nattlek | Mai Zetterling | Sweden |
| The First Teacher | Pervyy uchitel | Andrey Konchalovskiy | Soviet Union |
| Almost a Man / Half a Man | Un uomo a metà | Vittorio De Seta | Italy |
Awards[]
- Golden Lion:
- Special Jury Prize:
- Volpi Cup:
- Best Actor - Jacques Perrin (Un uomo a metà)
- Best Actress - Natalya Arinbasarova (The First Teacher)
- FIPRESCI Prize
- OCIC Award
- Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
- Honorable Mention - Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
- Special Prize
- The War Game (Peter Watkins)
- Ha-Yeled Me'ever Lerechov (Yosef Shalhin)
- Lion of San Marco
- Memorandum (Donald Brittain and John Spotton)
- Testa di rapa (Hermína Týrlová and Giancarlo Zagni)[3]
- Best Film about Adolescence - Ritzar bez bronya (Borislav Sharaliev)
- Best Documentary - Le mistral (Joris Ivens)
- Best Documentary - Television - Storm Signal (Robert Drew)
- Lion of San Marco - Grand Prize
- Hectorologie (Yves Plantin and Alain Blondel)
- Rodzina czlowiecza (Wladyslaw Slesicki)
- The Girl and the Bugler (Aleksandr Mitta)
- Plate 'Lion of San Marco'
- The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work (Jules Engel)
- Best Experimental Film - L'ultimo (Vittorio Armentano)
- Best Sport Film - Hockey (Mica Milosevic)
- Best Children's Film - The Kind-Hearted Ant (Aleksandar Marks & Vladimir Jutrisa)
- Best Animated Film - Chromophobia (Raoul Servais)
- Cultural and Educational Film - Comment savoir (Claude Jutra)
- Film about Architecture - Helioplastika (Jaroslaw Brzozowski)
- Plate
- The Animal Movie (Grant Munro and Ron Tunis)
- Jemima and Johnny (Lionel Ngakane)
- Physics and Chemistry of Water (Sarah Erulkar)
- Ptaci kohaci (Jirí Torman)
- Documentary - Contemporary Life/Social - Labanta negro (Piero Nelli)
- Recreative Children's Film - Little Mole, for the episode Krtek a raketa (Zdeněk Miler)
- Children's Film - Educative-Didactical - Alexander and a Car without the Left Headlight (Peter Fleischmann)
- Honorary Diploma
- La fiaba di Tancredi (Velia Vergani)
- Tribunal (Herbert Seggelke)
- Willem de Kooning, the Painter (Paul Falkenberg and Hans Namuth)
- Jury Hommage
- Award for best interpretation
- Ritzar bez bronya (Oleg Kovachev)
References[]
- ^ "The 1960s". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "Juries for the 1960s". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "Farewell to Giancarlo Zagni- worked with Visconti". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1966 film festivals
- 1966 in Italy
- Venice Film Festival
- 1960s in Venice
- August 1966 events in Europe
- September 1966 events in Europe