1979 Cannes Film Festival

1979 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 32nd Cannes Film Festival, adapted from an original illustration by Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon.[1]
Opening film	Hair
Closing film	À nous deux
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or (Apocalypse Now and Die Blechtrommel)
Number of films	21 (In Competition)[2] 12 (Un Certain Regard) 8 (Out of Competition) 11 (Short Film)
Festival date	10 May 1979 – 24 May 1979
Website	festival-cannes.com/en

The 32nd Cannes Film Festival was held on May 10 - 24. The Palme d'Or went to the Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola and Die Blechtrommel by Volker Schlöndorff.^[3][4]

The festival opened with Hair, directed by Miloš Forman and closed with À nous deux, directed by Claude Lelouch.^[5][6]

Jury

• Françoise Sagan (France) (president)
• Sergio Amidei (Italy)
• Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud (Switzerland)
• Luis García Berlanga (Spain)
• Maurice Bessy (France)
• Paul Claudon (France)
• Jules Dassin (USA)
• Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács (Hungary)
• Robert Rozhdestvensky (Soviet Union) (author)
• Susannah York (UK)

Feature film competition

• Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (which was screened as a work in progress)
• Arven by Anja Breien
• Bez znieczulenia by Andrzej Wajda
• Caro papà by Dino Risi
• The China Syndrome by James Bridges
• Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick
• Die Blechtrommel by Volker Schlöndorff
• Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf by André Delvaux
• The Europeans by James Ivory
• L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile by Luigi Comencini
• La drôlesse by Jacques Doillon
• Les Soeurs Brontë by André Téchiné
• Los sobrevivientes by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• Magyar rapszódia by Miklós Jancsó
• My Brilliant Career by Gillian Armstrong
• Norma Rae by Martin Ritt
• Okupacija u 26 slika by Lordan Zafranović
• Siberiade by Andrei Konchalovsky
• Série noire by Alain Corneau
• Victoria by Bo Widerberg
• Woyzeck by Werner Herzog

Un Certain Regard

• A kedves szomszéd by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
• Companys, procés a Catalunya by Josep Maria Forn
• Dalla nube alla resistenza by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
• Die dritte Generation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Encore un Hiver by Françoise Sagan
• Fad'jal by Safi Faye
• Les petites fugues by Yves Yersin
• Moments de la vie d'une femme by Michal Bat-Adam
• Mourir à tue-tête by Anne Claire Poirier
• Paviljon VI by Lucian Pintilie
• Printemps en Février by Shei Tieli
• Spirit of the Wind by Ralph Liddle

Films out of competition

• À nous deux by Claude Lelouch
• Cristo si è fermato a Eboli by Francesco Rosi
• Hair by Miloš Forman
• Le Musee du Louvre by Toshio Uruta
• Manhattan by Woody Allen
• Prova d'orchestra by Federico Fellini
• Wise Blood by John Huston

Short film competition

• Barbe bleue by Olivier Gillon
• Bum by Břetislav Pojar
• La Dame de Monte Carlo by Dominique Delouche
• La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
• Harpya by Raoul Servais
• Helping Hand by John P. Taylor and Zlatko Pavlinovic
• Le Mur by Jan January Janczak
• Petite histoire un peu triste by Didier Pourcel
• Põld by Rein Raamat
• The Waltzing Policemen by Kerry Feltham
• Zwei Frauen in der Oper by Christian Veit-Attendorff

Awards

Francis Ford Coppola, winner of the Palme d'Or at the event.

Volker Schlöndorff, winner of the Palme d'Or at the event.

• Palme d'Or:
  • Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola
  • Die Blechtrommel by Volker Schlöndorff
• Grand Prix: Siberiade by Andrei Konchalovsky
• Best Actor: Jack Lemmon for The China Syndrome
• Best Actress: Sally Field for Norma Rae
• Best Supporting Actor: Stefano Madia for Caro papà
• Best Supporting Actress: Eva Mattes for Woyzeck
• Best Director: Terrence Malick for Days of Heaven
• Technical Grand Prize: Norma Rae by Martin Ritt
• Short Film Palme d'Or: Harpya by Raoul Servais
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film:
  • Bum by Břetislav Pojar
  • La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
• Caméra d'Or: Northern Lights by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson
• Young Cinema Award: La drôlesse by Jacques Doillon
• FIPRESCI Prize
  • Parallel Section:
    • Angi Vera by Pál Gábor
    • Black Jack by Ken Loach
  • Competition: Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Without Anesthesia by Andrzej Wajda
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Arven by Anja Breien

References

1. "Posters 1979". Retrieved 14 December 2013.
2. "Official Selection 1979 : All the Selection". Retrieved 14 December 2013.
3. "1979 - Un Certain Regard, a Certain Smile". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
4. "Awards 1979 : All Awards". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
5. "Selection of the 1979 Festival". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
6. "Lauren Bacall and Yves Montand special guests at the opening gala 1979". Retrieved 10 December 2013.

External links

• 1979 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival 1979
• Cannes Film Festival:1979 at Internet Movie Database