1981 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• Jacques Deray
  Jacques Deray
  Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.-Biography:...
  
   (France) (president)
• Ellen Burstyn
  Ellen Burstyn
  Ellen Burstyn is a leading American actress of film, stage, and television. Burstyn's career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years she appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967...
  
   (USA)
• Jean-Claude Carrière
  Jean-Claude Carrière
  Jean-Claude Carrière is a screenwriter and actor. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel...
  
   (France)
• Robert Chazal (France)
• Attilio D'Onofrio (Italy)
• Christian Defaye (Switzerland) (journalist)
• Carlos Diegues
  Carlos Diegues
  Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues, is a Brazilian film director. He is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.-Filmography:* 2010 O Grande Circo Místico...
  
   (Brazil)
• Antonio Gala
  Antonio Gala
  Antonio Gala Velasco is a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist and writer.Gala was born in Brazatortas, Ciudad Real , although he moved very soon to Córdoba and is widely considered an Andalusian....
  
   (Spain)
• Andrei Petrov (Soviet Union)
• Douglas Slocombe
  Douglas Slocombe
  Douglas Slocombe OBE, BSC, A.S.C. is a British cinematographer who has enjoyed a long career in the British film industry...
  
   (UK)

Feature film competition

• Beau-père
  Beau-père
  Beau-père is a 1981 French film directed by Bertrand Blier. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. The film had a total of 1,197,816 admissions in France...
  
  by Bertrand Blier
  Bertrand Blier
  Bertrand Blier is a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier....
  
  
• Chariots of Fire
  Chariots of Fire
  Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice....
  
  by Hugh Hudson
  Hugh Hudson
  Hugh Hudson is an English film director. His best-known international success is the 1981 multiple Academy Award-winning film, Chariots of Fire.- Early life :...
  
  
• Cserepek
  Cserepek
  Cserepek is a 1980 Hungarian drama film directed by István Gaál. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Zygmunt Malanowicz - Vígh András* Katalin Gyöngyössy - András elvált felesége* Tamás Horváth - Zoli* Irma Patkós - Öregasszony...
  
  by István Gaál
  István Gaál
  István Gaál was a Hungarian film director, editor and screenwriter. He directed 27 films between 1956 and 1996. With Falcons he won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
  
  
• Człowiek z żelaza
  Man of Iron
  Man of Iron is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union....
  
  by Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...
  
  
• Engel aus Eisen
  Angels of Iron
  Angels of Iron is a 1981 German crime film directed by Thomas Brasch. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Hilmar Thate - Gustav Völpel* Katharina Thalbach - Lisa Gabler* Ulrich Wesselmann - Gladow* Karin Baal - Frau Luzie Gladow...
  
  by Thomas Brasch
  Thomas Brasch
  Thomas Brasch was a German author, poet and film director.- Awards :1981 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Director- Publications :* „Sie geht, sie geht nicht“, Theaterstück, 1970...
  
  
• Excalibur
  Excalibur (film)
  Excalibur is a 1981 dramatic fantasy film directed, produced and co-written by John Boorman that retells the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Adapted from the 15th century Arthurian romance, Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory, Excalibur features the music of Richard Wagner...
  
  by John Boorman
  John Boorman
  John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...
  
  
• Faktas
  Faktas
  Faktas is a 1981 Soviet war film directed by Almantas Grikevicius. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Yelena Solovey won the award for Best Supporting Actress.-Cast:* Regimantas Adomaitis* Donatas Banionis* Juozas Budraitis...
  
  by Alimantas Grikiavicius
• Heaven's Gate
  Heaven's Gate (film)
  Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s...
  
  by Michael Cimino
  Michael Cimino
  Michael Cimino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and author. He is best known for writing and directing Academy Award-winning The Deer Hunter and the infamous Heaven's Gate. His films are characterized by their striking visual style and controversial subject...
  
  
• La pelle by Liliana Cavani
  Liliana Cavani
  Liliana Cavani is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers that came into prominence in the 1970s and includes Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marco Bellochio. Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature...
  
  
• La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo by Bernardo Bertolucci
  Bernardo Bertolucci
  Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...
  
  
• Les Années lumière
  Light Years Away
  Light Years Away is a 1981 film directed by Alain Tanner. It tells the story of a young man who meets an old man who says he was taught by birds how to fly and is building a flying machine. It is based on a novel by Daniel Odier....
  
  by Alain Tanner
• Les Uns et les Autres
  Les Uns et les Autres
  Les Uns et les Autres is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work with Un Homme et une Femme. It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was distributed under the name...
  
  by Claude Lelouch
• Looks and Smiles
  Looks and Smiles
  Looks and Smiles is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ken Loach. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Barry Hines. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Loach won the Young Cinema Award.-Cast:...
  
  by Ken Loach
  Ken Loach
  Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
  
  
• Mephisto
  Mephisto (1981 film)
  Mephisto is the title of a 1981 film adaptation of Klaus Mann's novel of the same name, directed by István Szabó, and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen...
  
  by István Szabó
  István Szabó
  István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...
  
  
• Montenegro
  Montenegro (film)
  Montenegro also known as Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls is a Swedish black comedy film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev.-Plot:Marianne Faithfull sings "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" over the opening credit sequence....
  
  by Dušan Makavejev
  Dušan Makavejev
  Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
  
  
• Neige
  Neige
  Neige is a 1981 French drama film directed by Juliet Berto and Jean-Henri Roger. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Young Cinema Award.-Cast:* Juliet Berto - Anita* Jean-François Stévenin - Willy* Robert Liensol - Jocko...
  
  by Juliet Berto
  Juliet Berto
  Juliet Berto was a French actress. A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and would go on to appear in many of Godard's subsequent films, including La Chinoise, Week End, Le Gai Savoir,...
  
  
• Passione d'amore
  Passion of Love
  Passion of Love is a 1981 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bernard Giraudeau - Capt. Giorgio Bacchetti* Valeria D'Obici - Fosca* Laura Antonelli - Clara...
  
  by Ettore Scola
• Patrimonio nacional
  National Heritage (film)
  National Heritage is a 1981 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Luis Ciges - Segundo* Luis Escobar - Marqués de Leguineche* Agustín González - Padre Calvo...
  
  by Luis García Berlanga
• Possession
  Possession (1981 film)
  Possession is a 1981 cult horror film directed by Andrzej Żuławski.-Plot:Mark returns home to Berlin to find his wife Anna is leaving him for unclear reasons. He initially suspects an affair and hires detectives to track her, but gradually discovers clues that something far stranger is afoot...
  
  by Andrzej Żuławski
• Quartet
  Quartet (1981 film)
  Quartet is a 1981 Merchant Ivory Film, starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins and Alan Bates, set in 1924 Paris. It premiered at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and was an entry for the Selection Officielle...
  
  by James Ivory
  James Ivory (director)
  James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
  
  
• Thief
  Thief (film)
  Thief is a 1981 neo-noir film written and directed by Michael Mann and based on the novel The Home Invaders by "Frank Hohimer"...
  
   (Violent Streets) by Michael Mann
• Tulipää
  Flame Top
  Flame Top is a 1980 Finnish drama film directed by Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehto. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Asko Sarkola - Writer* Rea Mauranen - Olga Esempio* Kari Franck - Gunnar Avanto* Esko Salminen - Arwid...
  
  by Pirjo Honkasalo
  Pirjo Honkasalo
  Pirjo Honkasalo is a Finnish film-maker. Although she has written and directed over a dozen films, Honkasalo is also an accomplished cinematographer, film editor, producer and actor. For her work in the film industry, Honkasalo has been recognized by winning 19 major film awards while being...
  
   and Pekka Lehto
  Pekka Lehto
  Pekka Lehto is a Finnish film director. He has directed fifteen films since 1976. He co-directed Flame Top with Pirjo Honkasalo and the film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

• A tanú by Péter Bacsó
  Péter Bacsó
  Péter Bacsó was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.After high school graduation Bacsó wanted to become an actor and later a theatre director, but ultimately decided to try filmmaking. His first job in a film was as an assistant in Géza Radványi's Valahol Európában at the age of 19...
  
  
• Elef Nishikot K'tanot by Mira Recanati
• Cerromaior
  Cerromaior
  Cerromaior is a 1981 Portuguese drama film directed by Luís Filipe Rocha. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, and was awarded the Colón de Oro at the Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva.-Cast:...
  
  by Luís Filipe Rocha
  Luís Filipe Rocha
  Luís Filipe Rocha is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and actor. He has directed ten films since 1976. His film Cerromaior was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Dios los cría...
  ...And God Created Them
  ...And God Created Them is a 1979 Puerto Rican comedy film directed by Jacobo Morales. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.- Synopsis :The film actually consists of five vignettes:...
  
  by Jacobo Morales
  Jacobo Morales
  Jacobo Morales is an auteur, whom many consider to be the most influential film director in Puerto Rico's history.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Eijanaika
  Eijanaika (film)
  is a 1981 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Kaori Momoi - Ine* Shigeru Izumiya - Genji* Ken Ogata - Furukawa* Shigeru Tsuyuguchi - Kinzo* Masao Kusakari - Itoman...
  
  by Shōhei Imamura
  Shohei Imamura
  was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...
  
  
• Eu Te Amo
  I Love You (1981 film)
  I Love You is a 1981 Brazilian drama film directed by Arnaldo Jabor. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Arnaldo Jabor
  Arnaldo Jabor
  Arnaldo Jabor is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1990. His 1973 film Toda Nudez Será Castigada won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival....
  
  
• Golyamoto noshtno kapane
  The Big Night Bathe
  The Big Night Bathe is a 1980 Bulgarian drama film directed by Binka Zhelyazkova. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Yanina Kasheva - Ninel* Malgorzata Braunek - Zana* Tanya Shahova - Lora...
  
  by Binka Zhelyazkova
  Binka Zhelyazkova
  Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...
  
  
• Ko to tamo peva by Slobodan Šijan
  Slobodan Šijan
  Slobodan Šijan is a Serbian film director.After graduating film direction and directing a handful of TV movies in the late 1970s, he caught a big break with his first full-length feature Ko to tamo peva in 1980...
  
  
• Let There Be Light
  Let There Be Light (film)
  Let There Be Light is a 1946 American documentary film directed by John Huston.The film, commissioned by the United States Army Signal Corps, was the final entry in a John Huston trilogy of films produced at the request of the U.S. Government. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have...
  
  by John Huston
  John Huston
  John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...
  
  
• Memoirs of a Survivor
  Memoirs of a Survivor (film)
  Memoirs of a Survivor is a 1981 British science fiction film directed by David Gladwell. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  by David Gladwell
  David Gladwell
  David Gladwell is a British film editor and director. His most notable films as editor include If.... and O Lucky Man! both by director Lindsay Anderson. In 1984, Gladwell directed the adaptation of the Doris Lessing novel Memoirs of a Survivor starring Julie Christie.- External links :* *...
  
  
• Mur murs by Agnès Varda
  Agnès Varda
  Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
  
  
• Samo jednom se ljubi
  The Melody Haunts My Memory
  The Melody Haunts My Memory is a 1981 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Rajko Grlić. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Miki Manojlović - Tomislav...
  
  by Rajko Grlić
  Rajko Grlic
  Rajko Grlić is Yugoslav film director and producer from Croatia of Jewish and Serbian decent...
  
  
• Satah Se Uthata Aadmi
  Arising from the Surface
  Arising from the Surface is a 1980 Indian drama film directed by Mani Kaul. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bharath Gopi - Ramesh* Vibhuti Jha - Madhav* Satyen Kumar* M. K. Raina - Keshav...
  
  by Mani Kaul
  Mani Kaul
  Mani Kaul was an Indian film director of Hindi films. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Started his career with Uski Roti , which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win...
  
  
• Un moment de bonheur by Yves Laumet

Films out of competition

• Anima – Symphonie phantastique by Titus Leber
  Titus Leber
  Titus Leber is a writer and director of films based on classical music.- Biography :Titus Leber was born in Zell am See, Austria. He studied at the Lycée Français de Vienne, where he received a baccalaureate degree in 1969 and a Ph.D in mass media communication in 1975...
  
  
• Bodas de sangre
  Blood Wedding (1981 film)
  Blood Wedding is a 1981 Spanish musical film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style...
  
  by Carlos Saura
  Carlos Saura
  Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...
  
  
• Da nao tian gong by Wan Laiming
  Wan Laiming
  Wan Lai-Ming was born in Nanjing, China. He was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animation industry, and became China's first animator. As the director of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, he would raise the standard to International level before other historical events...
  
  
• From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
  From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
  From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China is a 1980 documentary film about Western culture breaking into China produced and directed by Murray Lerner. It portrays the famous violinist and music teacher Isaac Stern as the first American musician to collaborate with the China Central Symphony Society...
  
  by Murray Lerner
  Murray Lerner
  Murray Lerner is an Academy Award-winning American documentary and experimental film director and producer.1967 saw the release of the film Festival...
  
  
• Hands Up! by Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol...
  
  
• Honeysuckle Rose
  Honeysuckle Rose (film)
  Honeysuckle Rose is a 1980 romantic drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving.-Plot:...
  
  by Jerry Schatzberg
  Jerry Schatzberg
  Jerry Schatzberg is a photographer and film director.-Career:Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx. He photographed for magazines such as Vogue, Esquire and McCalls. He made his debut as a feature film director with 1970's Puzzle of a Downfall Child starring...
  
  
• Ku nao ren de xiao
  Troubled Laughter
  Troubled Laughter is a 1979 Chinese drama film directed by Deng Yimin and Yang Yanjin. It was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bai Mu - Professor* Cheng Zhi - Chief editor* Fu Hengzhi - Examiner* Gong Fei - Daughter...
  
  by Yimin Deng, Yanjin Yang
• La Mouche by Ferenc Rofusz
  Ferenc Rófusz
  Ferenc Rofusz is a Hungarian animator.-Biography:Rofusz was born in 1946 in Budapest. His interest in animation and film making started relatively early. During his studies he took special drawing and animating courses. He started to work at the Hungarian film studio Mafilm as set designer, set...
  
  
• Malu tianshi
  Street Angel (1937 film)
  Street Angel is a Chinese film released in 1937. The film was directed by Yuan Muzhi and stars the popular singer Zhou Xuan.-Synopsis:The film deals with two sisters, Xiao Hong and Xiao Yun who have fled from the war in Northeast China to Shanghai, where they are living under the brutal thumb of...
  
  by Mu-jih Yuan
  Yuan Muzhi
  Yuan Muzhi was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.- Career :...
  
  
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
  The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film)
  The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1981 film adaptation of the 1934 novel by the same name by James M. Cain. The film was produced by Lorimar and originally released theatrically in North America by Paramount Pictures. This version, based on a screenplay by David Mamet and directed by Bob...
  
  by Bob Rafelson
  Bob Rafelson
  Robert "Bob" Rafelson is an Emmy Award winning American film director, writer and producer. He was an early member of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s and is most famous for directing and co-writing the film Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson, as well as being one of the creators of...
  
  
• This Is Elvis
  This Is Elvis
  This Is Elvis is a 1981 documentary film directed by Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo, based on the life of Elvis Presley. It combined archival footage with reenactments, and narration by pop singer Ral Donner. It was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  by Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt
  Andrew Solt
  Andrew Solt is a producer, director, writer and documentary filmmaker. He has done numerous television specials and series for both broadcast and cable television and also movies. Solt owns the rights to the The Ed Sullivan Show library and has produced over 100 hours of new programming from the...
  
  
• Tre fratelli
  Three Brothers (film)
  Three Brothers is a 1981 Italian film based on a work by Andrei Platonov. It was directed by Francesco Rosi and stars Philippe Noiret, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Michele Placido and Charles Vanel....
  
  by Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...
  
  

Short film competition

• Alephah by Gérald Frydman
• André Derain, thèmes et variations by François Porcile
• Dilemma by John Halas
  John Halas
  John Halas was a Hungarian animator. . He learned his craft under George Pal, but launched his own career in 1934, and two years later moved to England where he and his wife Joy Batchelor founded Halas and Batchelor.Over the years they made over 70 short subjects during the war, using propaganda...
  
  
• Diskzokej by Jiří Barta
  Jirí Barta
  Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director. His films, many of which used the medium of wood for animation, garnered critical acclaim and won many awards, but after the fall of the communist government in Czechoslovakia he was unable to release anything for about 15 years...
  
  
• Král a skritek by Lubomír Beneš
  Lubomír Beneš
  Lubomír Beneš was a Czech animator, director and author who lived in Roztoky, near Prague. He was married, and had a son and daughter....
  
  
• Manövergäste by G. Nicolas Hayek
• Maskirani razbojnik by Petar Lalovic
• Moto Perpetuo by Béla Vajda
• Ne me parlez plus jamais d'amour by Sylvain Madigan
• Le Rat by Elisabeth Huppert
• Ravnovesie by Boiko Kanev
• Trcanje by Dusko Sevo
• Zea by André Leduc

Awards

• Palme d'Or
  Palme d'Or
  The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
  
  : Człowiek z żelaza
  Man of Iron
  Man of Iron is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union....
  
  by Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...
  
  
• Grand Prix
  Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
  
  : Les Années lumière
  Light Years Away
  Light Years Away is a 1981 film directed by Alain Tanner. It tells the story of a young man who meets an old man who says he was taught by birds how to fly and is building a flying machine. It is based on a novel by Daniel Odier....
  
  by Alain Tanner
• Best Actor
  Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actor Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....
  
  : Ugo Tognazzi
  Ugo Tognazzi
  Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...
  
   for La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo
• Best Actress
  Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....
  
  : Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...
  
   for Quartet
  Quartet (1981 film)
  Quartet is a 1981 Merchant Ivory Film, starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins and Alan Bates, set in 1924 Paris. It premiered at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and was an entry for the Selection Officielle...
  
  and Possession
  Possession (1981 film)
  Possession is a 1981 cult horror film directed by Andrzej Żuławski.-Plot:Mark returns home to Berlin to find his wife Anna is leaving him for unclear reasons. He initially suspects an affair and hires detectives to track her, but gradually discovers clues that something far stranger is afoot...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor: Ian Holm
  Ian Holm
  Sir Ian Holm, CBE is an English actor known for his stage work and for many film roles. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear...
  
   for Chariots of Fire
  Chariots of Fire
  Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice....
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress: Yelena Solovey
  Yelena Solovey
  Yelena Solovey is a Soviet film actress. She has appeared in 45 films since 1966. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Faktas at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Faktas...
  
   for Faktas
  Faktas
  Faktas is a 1981 Soviet war film directed by Almantas Grikevicius. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Yelena Solovey won the award for Best Supporting Actress.-Cast:* Regimantas Adomaitis* Donatas Banionis* Juozas Budraitis...
  
  
• Best Screenplay
  Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Screenplay Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival...
  
  : István Szabó
  István Szabó
  István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...
  
   for Mephisto
  Mephisto (1981 film)
  Mephisto is the title of a 1981 film adaptation of Klaus Mann's novel of the same name, directed by István Szabó, and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen...
  
  
• Best Artistic Contribution: Excalibur
  Excalibur (film)
  Excalibur is a 1981 dramatic fantasy film directed, produced and co-written by John Boorman that retells the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Adapted from the 15th century Arthurian romance, Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory, Excalibur features the music of Richard Wagner...
  
  by John Boorman
  John Boorman
  John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize: Les Uns et les Autres
  Les Uns et les Autres
  Les Uns et les Autres is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work with Un Homme et une Femme. It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was distributed under the name...
  
  for the sound quality
• Short Film Palme d'Or
  Short Film Palme d'Or
  The Short Film Palme d'Or is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the same jury of the Cinéfondation....
  
  : Moto Perpetuo by Béla Vajda
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film:
  • Le Rat by Elisabeth Huppert
  • Zea by André Leduc
• Caméra d'Or
  Caméra d'Or
  The Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....
  
  : Desperado City by Vadim Glowna
  Vadim Glowna
  Vadim Glowna is a German actor and film director. He has appeared in over 150 films and television shows since 1964.He directed the 1983 film Dies rigorose Leben, which won an Honourable Mention at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin...
  
  
• Young Cinema Award:
  • Looks and Smiles
    Looks and Smiles
    Looks and Smiles is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ken Loach. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Barry Hines. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Loach won the Young Cinema Award.-Cast:...
    
    by Ken Loach
    Ken Loach
    Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
    
    
  • Neige
    Neige
    Neige is a 1981 French drama film directed by Juliet Berto and Jean-Henri Roger. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Young Cinema Award.-Cast:* Juliet Berto - Anita* Jean-François Stévenin - Willy* Robert Liensol - Jocko...
    
    by Juliet Berto
    Juliet Berto
    Juliet Berto was a French actress. A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and would go on to appear in many of Godard's subsequent films, including La Chinoise, Week End, Le Gai Savoir,...
    
     and Jean-Henri Roger
    Jean-Henri Roger
    Jean-Henri Roger is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed the 1983 film Cap Canaille, which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Neige * Cap Canaille...
    
    
• 'La Chance de Cannes' Award: Prends 10000 balles et casse-toi by Mahmoud Zemmouri
• FIPRESCI Prize:
  • Malou
    Malou
    Malou is a feminine given name and a French surname. As a given name, it is a contraction of the compound name Marie-Louise. The name is popular in Denmark, where it ranked 34th for girls born in 2009.-People with the given name:...
    
    by Jeanine Meerapfel
    Jeanine Meerapfel
    Jeanine Meerapfel is a German film director and screenwriter. She has directed 17 films since 1966. In 1984, she was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival...
    
    
  • Mephisto
    Mephisto (1981 film)
    Mephisto is the title of a 1981 film adaptation of Klaus Mann's novel of the same name, directed by István Szabó, and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen...
    
    by István Szabó
    István Szabó
    István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...
    
    
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Człowiek z żelaza
  Man of Iron
  Man of Iron is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union....
  
  by Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...
  
  
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention:
  • Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice....
    
    by Hugh Hudson
    Hugh Hudson
    Hugh Hudson is an English film director. His best-known international success is the 1981 multiple Academy Award-winning film, Chariots of Fire.- Early life :...
    
    
  • Looks and Smiles
    Looks and Smiles
    Looks and Smiles is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ken Loach. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Barry Hines. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Loach won the Young Cinema Award.-Cast:...
    
    by Ken Loach
    Ken Loach
    Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
    
    

External links

• 1981 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1981 at Internet Movie Database
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