38th Venice International Film Festival

38th Venice International Film Festival
	Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane
Festival date	2 – 12 September 1981
Website	Website
Venice Film Festival chronology
	39th 37th

The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.^[1]^[2]

Italian writer and journalist Italo Calvino was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was Marianne and Juliane directed by Margarethe von Trotta.

Jury

The following people comprised the 1981 jury:^[3]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Beirut the Encounter	Beyroutou el lika	Borhane Alaouié	Lebanon
Cutting It Short	Postrizinj	Jiří Menzel	Czechoslovakia
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?	Сјећаш ли се Доли Бел?	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia
The Fall of Italy	Pad Italije	Lordan Zafranović	Yugoslavia
The Fall of the Rebel Angels	La caduta degli angeli ribelli	Marco Tullio Giordana	Italy
Forest of Love	Bosco d'amore	Alberto Bevilacqua	Italy
The Games of Countess Dolingen	Les Jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz	Catherine Binet	France
The Kaleidoscope	Chaalchitra	Mrinal Sen	India
Kargus		Juan Minon, Miguel Ángel Trujillo	Spain
Marianne and Juliane	Die bleierne Zeit	Margarethe von Trotta	West Germany
The Opportunities of Rosa	Le occasioni di Rosa	Salvatore Piscicelli	Italy
Prince of the City		Sidney Lumet	United States
Silvestre		João César Monteiro	Portugal
Starfall	Звездопад	Igor Talankin	Soviet Union
Sweet Dreams	Sogni d'oro	Nanni Moretti	Italy
Sweet Pea	Piso pisello	Peter Del Monte	Italy
They Don't Wear Black Tie	Eles Não Usam Black-Tie	Leon Hirszman	Brazil
True Confessions		Ulu Grosbard	United States
The Tyrant's Heart	A Zsarnok Szive	Miklós Jancsó	Hungary
The Witch Hunt	Forfølgelsen	Anja Brejen	Norway

The following awards were presented at the 38th edition:^[4]

^ "VENICE 1981 – THE 38TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL". 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.
^ "Venice Film Festival 1981 (Competition)". letterboxd.com. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
^ "Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1981". fipresci.org. Retrieved 30 March 2018.