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40th Locarno Film Festival
Opening filmIntervista directed by Federico Fellini
LocationLocarno, Switzerland
Founded1946
AwardsGolden Leopard: O Bobo directed by José Alvaro Morais
Artistic directorDavid Strieff
Festival dateOpening: 6 August 1987 (1987-08-06)
Closing: 16 August 1987 (1987-08-16)
WebsiteLFF
Locarno Film Festival

The 40th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 August 1987 in Locarno, Switzerland.[1][2] This was the 40th Anniversary of the Locarno Film Festival. To celebrate, a retrospective of 40 years of films at the festival was organized.[2] Jean-Luc Godard, opened the festival with a lecture on cinema as a guest of honor.[3] The opening film of the festival, which drew a crowd of 8,000 people, was Federico Fellini's film Intervista, despite the contract disputes that had kept the film from screening since its Cannes premiere.[4]

Over 60,000 people attended screenings at the Piazza Grande open-air theater during the week. The Piazza Grande only had 5,000 seats, but thousands sat on the floor and even stood to watch some of the films, including Ettore Scola's The Family. More than 600 journalists attended the festival and 1,800 professional accreditation passes were given out.[5] Film festival chiefs from around the world attended, including the heads of the Berlin, Mannheim, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Istanbul, and Cairo film festivals.[6] It was the most expensive Locarno festival ever, with a budget of around $1,200,000 (2 million Swiss francs).[7]

For the first time in the West, Russian director Aleksandr Sokourov was able to screen his movie The Lonely Voice of Man, which had been banned by the Soviet Union since 1978.[6][8] Another Russian filmmaker, Kira Muratova, served on the festival jury and was able to screen two of her films that had also been banned in the Soviet Union.[9] Director Win Wenders attended the festival, but only for one day. He held a midnight press conference to discuss his new film Wings of Desire.[6] On the last day of the festival Colombia held a surprise screening of La Bamba.[10]

The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to O Bobo directed by José Alvaro Morais.[11][12]

Jury

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International Jury – Main Competition

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Official Sections

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The following films were screened in these sections:[14][15]

Main Competition

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Feature Films

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Highlighted title indicates Golden Leopard winner

In Competition – Feature Films / Main Program
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
A Dos Aguas The Two Waters Carlos Olguin 1986 Argentina
A Fior Di Pelle Skin Deep Gianluca Fumagalli 1987 Italy
Aurelia Giorgio Molteni 1987 Italy
Avril Brisé Broken April Liria Begeja 1987 France
Checkpoint Parviz Sayyad 1987 USA
Dixia Qing Love Unto Waste Stanley Kwan 1986 Hong Kong
Hol Volt, Hol Nem Volt A Hungarian Fairy Tale Gyula Gazdag 1986 Hungary
Konbu Finze (Kongbu Fenzi) Terrorizers Edward Yang 1986 Taiwan
O Bobo José Álvaro Morais 1987 Portugal
Odinokij Golos Celoveka The Lonely Voice of Man Aleksandr Sokourov 1987 Russia
Personaggi & Interpreti Heinz Bütler 1987 Switzerland
Poisons Pierre Maillard 1987 Switzerland, France
Robinson No Niwa Robinson's Garden Masashi Yamamoto 1987 Japan
Sinfin Class Cristian Pauls 1986 Argentina
Skytturnar White Whales Fridrik Thor Fridriksson 1987 Iceland
Three Bewildered People In The Night Gregg Araki 1987 USA
With Love To The Person Next To Me Brian McKenzie 1987 Australia
Zjoek Zjoek: The Art of Forgetting Erik van Zuylen 1987 Netherlands

Television Movies

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Highlighted title indicates Golden Leopard's Eye winner

In Competition – TV-Movies / Main Program
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
After Pilkington Christopher Morahan 1987 Great Britain
Blue Window Norman René 1987 USA
Coast To Coast Sandy Johnson 1987 Great Britain
El Caso Del Cadaver Descuartizado The Case of Dismembered Corpse Ricardo Franco 1985 Spain
Escape From Sobibor Jack Gold 1987 Great Britain
Le Rapport Du Gendarme The Gendarme Report Claude Goretta 1986 Switzerland
Life Story Mick Jackson 1987 Great Britain
Long Gone Martin Davidson 1987 USA
May We Borrow Your Husband Bob Mahoney 1986 Great Britain
Piatnò Piatned Aleko Tzabadze 1986 Russia
Promise Glenn Jordan 1986 USA
The Last Innocent Man Roger Spottiswoode 1987 USA
Welcome In Vienna Alex Corti 1985 Austria
Zischke Hiss Martin Theo Krieger 1986 Germany

Anniversary - 40 Years of Festivals at Locarno

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Anniversary Retrospective – 40 Years of Festivals at Locarno / Main Program
Fest English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country
1st My Sun O Sole Mio Giacomo Gentiluomo 1946 Italy
2nd Lady In The Lake Robert Montgomery 1947 USA
3rd Germany, Year Zero Germania, Anno Zero Roberto Rossellini 1947 Italy, Germany
4th Port of Call Hamnstad Ingmar Bergman 1948 Sweden
5th Sunday in August Domenica D'Agosto Luciano Emmer 1950 Italy
6th Gold Marie Casque D'Or Jacques Becker 1952 France
10th Twelve Angry Men Sidney Lumet 1955 USA
10th Il Grido Michelangelo Antonioni 1957 Italy
11th Le Beau Serge Claude Chabrol 1958 France
12th Killer's Kiss Stanley Kubrick 1955 USA
12th Pozegnania Wojciech Has 1958 Poland
14th The Human Pyramid La Pyramide Humaine Jean Rouch 1960 France
14th Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Karel Reisz 1960 Great Britain
14th The Connection Shirley Clarke 1961 USA
15th On the Empty Balcony En El Balcon Vacio Jomí García Ascot 1962 Mexico
16th Hallelujah the Hills Adolfas Mekas 1963 USA
17th Love Meetings Comizi D'Amore Pier Paolo Pasolini 1963 Italy
17th The Green Years Os Verdes Anos Paulo Rocha 1963 Portugal
17th Black Peter Cerny Petr Milos Forman 1964 Czech Republic
18th Age of Illusions Álmodozások kora Istvan Szabo 1964 Hungary
18th Fists in the Pocket I Pugni In Tasca Marco Bellocchio 1965 Italy
18th The Girl Eltavozott Nap Marta Meszaros 1968 Hungary
19th Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Teni Sabytych Prjedkov Serguei Paradjanov 1965 Russia
20th The Moon with Teeth La Lune Avec Les Dents Michel Soutter 1967 Switzerland
21st The Hour of the Furnances La Hora De Los Hornos Fernando E. Solanas 1968 Argentina
22nd No Path Through Fire V Ognje Broda Njet Gleb Panfilov 1968 Russia
22nd Three Sad Tigers Tres Tristes Tigres Raul Ruiz 1968 Chile
23rd The Night of Counting the Years El Mumiaa Shadi Abdel Salam 1969 Egypt
25th Bleak Moments Mike Leigh 1971 Great Britain
26th The Illumination Iluminacja Krzysztof Zanussi 1973 Poland
27th Céline and Julie Go Boating Celine Et Julie Vont En Bateau Jacques Rivette 1974 France
28th Xala Ousmane Sembène 1974 Senegal
29th Harvest: 3,000 Years Mirt Sost Shi Amit Haile Gerima 1975 Ethiopia
29th The Big Night Le Grand Soir Francis Reusser 1976 Switzerland
31st The Idlers of the Fertile Valley I Tembelides Tis Eforis Kiladas Nikos Panayotopoulos 1978 Greece
32nd The Herd Suru Zeki Ökten 1978 Türkiye
32nd Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy Immacolata E Concetta Salvatore Piscitelli 1979 Italy
34th Pixote Hector Babenco 1980 Brazil
36th The Princess Adj Kiraly Katonat! Pal Erdöss 1983 Hungary
37th The Terence Davies Trilogy Terence Davis 1976 Great Britain

Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso)

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Out of Competition – Feature Films / Main Program
English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Candy Mountain Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer 1987 Switzerland, France
Wings of Desire Der Himmel Über Berlin Wim Wenders 1987 Germany
The Death of Empedocles Der Tod Des Empedokles Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub 1986 Germany
Intervista Federico Fellini 1987 Italy
I've Heard The Mermaids Singing Patricia Rozema 1987 Canada
Another Love Ina Laska Dušan Trančík 1985 Czech Republic
King Lear Jean-Luc Godard 1987 France
The Family La Famiglia Ettore Scola 1986 Italy, France
The Beggars Les Mendiants Benoît Jacquot 1987 Switzerland, France
Mills of Hell Malom A Pokolban Gyula Maár 1986 Hungary
The Beekeeper O Melissokomos Theo Angelopoulos 1986 Greece, France
Dark Eyes Oci Ciornie Nikita Mikhalkov 1987 Italy
Prick Up Your Ears Stephen Frears 1987 Great Britain
Blind Chance Przypadek Krzysztof Kieślowski 1987 Poland
Axiliad Siekierezada Witold Leszczyński 1986 Poland
Under the Sun of Satan Sous Le Soleil De Satan Maurice Pialat 1987 France
The Theme Tema Gleb Panfilov 1979 Russia
A Flame in My Heart Une Flamme Dans Mon Coeur Alain Tanner 1987 Switzerland, France
Vera Sérgio Toledo 1986 Brazil
Wish You Were Here David Leland 1987 Great Britain
I Remember you Ya Tebia Pomnu Ali Khamraev 1986 Russia
In the Wild Mountains Ye Shan Xueshu Yan 1985 China
Yeelen Souleymane Cissé 1987 Mali

Tribute To – Kira Muratova

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Tribute To Kira Muratova
English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country
The Long Farewell Dolgie Provody Kira Muratova 1971 Russia
Brief Encounters Korotkie Vstreci Kira Muratova 1967 Russia

On the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary

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A l'occasion du 40ème anniversaire, was a special selection of films shot on-location at the Locarno Film Festival.[16][17] They were screened in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Festival.

40th Anniversary Screenings
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Cine-Piazza François Kohler Belgium, Switzerland
L'Internazionale Involontaria Del Cinema Giovane (Locarno 1946-1987) The Involuntary International Cinema (Locarno 1946-1987) Matteo Bellinelli 1987 Switzerland
Remake Ansano Giannarelli 1987 Italy

Out of Program

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English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Berlin, August 1945 Berlin, Août 1945 Jean Rouch 1987
La Bomba Luis Valdez 1987 USA

Independent Sections

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Swiss Information (Information Suisse)

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Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Alpenglühn Silvia Horisberger, Norbert Wiedmer 1971 Switzerland
Blues, Black And White Markus Imboden 1987 Switzerland
Dani, Michi, Renato Und Max Dani, Michi, Renato and Max Richard Dindo 1987 Switzerland
Der Lauf Der Dinge The Course of Things Peter Fischli, David Weiss 1987 Switzerland
Die Lange Nacht The Long Night Christof Vorster 1987 Switzerland
Du Mich Auch You Me Too Anja Franke, Dani Levy 1986 Switzerland, Germany
Duenki-Schott Tobias Wyss 1986 Switzerland
Ex Voto Ex Vote Erich Langjahr 1986 Switzerland
Habibi - Ein Liebesbrief Habibi - a Love Letter Anka Schmid 1986 Switzerland
Ikaria Bp 1447 Pierre-Alain Meier 1987 Switzerland
Innocenza Innocence Villi Hermann 1986 Switzerland
Jenatsch Daniel Schmid 1987 Switzerland
Karma Hô Qunag Minh 1986 Switzerland
L'Autre Suisse The Other Swiss Alvaro Bizzarri Switzerland
L'Ogre The Ogre Simon Edelstein 1986 Switzerland
La Dame De Pique The Lady of Spades Patricia Plattner 1986 Switzerland
Psychokillers Jackie Léger 1987 Switzerland
Rotlicht Red Light Urs Odermatt 1987 Switzerland
Une Certaine Josette Bauer A Certain Josette Bauer Elisabeth Gujer, Uli Meier Switzerland
Unterwegs On the Way Switzerland
Wendel Christoph Schaub 1987 Switzerland
Zelja Heisst Wunsch, Zivot Ist Das Leben Zelja Means Wish, Civilo is Life Snezana Herceg, Otto Wymann 1986 Switzerland

Official Awards

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International Jury

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International Jury TV-Movies

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FIPRESCI Jury

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Source:[12][11][19]

References

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