44th Venice International Film Festival

44th Venice International Film Festival
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: Au revoir les enfants
Festival date	29 August – 9 September 1987
Website	Website
Venice Film Festival chronology
	45th 43rd

The 44th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 9 September 1987.^[1]^[2]

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:^[3]

Irene Papas, Greek actress and singer - Jury President^[4]
Sabine Azéma, French actress and singer
John Bailey, American cinematographer and director
Anja Breien, Norwegian director
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
Ana Carolina, Brazilian filmmaker
Michael York, British actor
Regina Ziegler, West-German producer

Official Sections

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

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:^[5]

True and Faithful Account (Relação fiel e verdadeira) by Margarida Gil (Portugal)
Italian Night (Notte Italiana) by Carlo Mazzacurati (Italy)
Killing Time (Poussière d'ange) by Edouard Niermans (France)
The Burglar (Vzlomšcik) by Valerij Ogorodnikov (Soviet Union)
Hidden City by Stephen Poliakoff (United Kingdom)
Sierra Leone [de] by Uwe Schrader [de] (West Germany)
Dragon Chow [de] (Drachenfutter) by Jan Schütte (West Germany, Switzerland)

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

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 L'homme voilé
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: Le sourd dans la ville by Mireille Dansereau

UNICEF Award

Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle

UNESCO Award

Drachenfutter by Jan Schütte

References

^ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1987". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
^ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
^ "4th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Roger Scholes – writer, director, cinematographer". Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.

External links

Official website
Venice Film Festival 1987 Awards on IMDb

[1] "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1987". Retrieved 6 October 2013.

[2] "The 1980s". Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.

[3] "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

[4] "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.

[5] "4th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

[a-6] "Roger Scholes – writer, director, cinematographer". Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.

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