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