2nd Göteborg Film Festival (1980)
Göteborg Film Festival 6 Feb - 10 Feb 1980, complete list
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- DirectorSvend WamStarsFrank IversenJorunn KjellsbyJulie WiggenEllen and Rolf met 17 years ago, resulting in the son Terje and later the daughter Line. Still together life is up and down between quarrels and passionate love. A passion which is difficult to control.
- DirectorBent H. BarfodStarsHannah Bjarnhof
- DirectorBruce RickerStarsBuddy AndersonCount BasieEddie DurhamDuring Prohibition, Kansas City was wide open, and jazz was its music. Late in the 1970s, musicians of the Pendergast era gather at the union hall to play, sing, and talk. Some were part of Walter Page's Blue Devils, joined Bennie Moten's band, and stayed with Count Basie's Orchestra. Basie is on hand, as are Big Joe Turner, Jay McShann, and some of his big band. Highlights include Turner's vocals, McShann's sly piano playing, a drum clinic from Jo Jones and Baby Lovett, Jimmy Forrest solos, and remembrances of Lester Young and of how Charlie Parker got his nickname. Throughout is the Kansas City sound: cool and relaxed, blues meeting swing, an afterbeat that calls for dancing.
- DirectorBent H. BarfodStarsJørgen Ryg
- DirectorFrederick WisemanA group of volunteer American soldiers go to Germany to participate in a practice in combat maneuver tactics.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerDocumentary without words but with an impressive orchestral soundtrack that captures the magnificence of the Storstrøm bridge, an engineering work that connects the Danish islands of Falster and Masnedo with three different lanes: for bicycles, for cars and for trains.
- DirectorJon Bang CarlsenStarsHans SmithAlexander AtlanLise AmbielleHans Smidt and his wife Cardy lives alternately in Monte Carlo and Beverly Hills. The film portrays how a person with unlimited means stages his dream life.
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsBirgit DollHanno PöschlHelmut QualtingerIn Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.
- DirectorAntti PeippoStarsAntti LitjaMartti PennanenSaara PakkasvirtaOlli Ruusunen is the data-expert that proposes the serious measures that will save the company from an economic collapse. His drastic savings programs forces the board to resign. Olli must go underground.
- DirectorPeter FleischmannStarsHelmut GriemFernando ArrabalCarline SeiserThe BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue.
- DirectorBruno Bozzetto
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsArthur BellJohn BriggsAnita BryantPersonal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the U. S. Grace Jones is seen writhing her way through "I Need A Man" at a rally and is sharply criticized for doing so by a Lesbian feminist.
- DirectorBent H. BarfodStarsJens BrenaaVivi FlindtExperimental film mixing real life ballet dancing acts with animations and special effects. Original score by Niels Viggo Bentzon.
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsAl GoldsteinHelen AdamJames ChanceA documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsJoseph KochA man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an hour and the ferry berth is 70 km away. The road has lot of curves, but they ride the bike in a high speed. An old-fashioned car has left the ferry in Assens at the same time as the motorcycle. They try to overtake the car on the road, but the driver won't let them pass. When they take a chance on his right side, the motorcycle smashes into a tree. The Ferryman takes the bodies of the man and the woman on his boat to the land of the dead.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsStephen HirstLouise CooperJean FranvalWhen honest young Tolly is forced on the run with 'Black Jack,' adventure and mishap are never far away. Based on Leon Garfield's popular novel, Ken Loach's 'Black Jack' is a dark, complex adventure film set in the 18th century.
- DirectorBent H. Barfod
- DirectorPeter HaldNinne OlssonStarsPer EggersJan LindellEva RemaeusThe youngest princess's is the king's darling daughter. One day she wants to have the three singing leaves. The king intend to make it happen. The leaves are owned by Prince Hatt under jorden.
- DirectorBruno BozzettoFrom being born until his death, a man spends most of his time "imprisoned" in boxes.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsRobert De NiroAllen GarfieldLara ParkerA Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.
- DirectorAntti KariJukka RuohomäkiStarsPehr-Olof Sirén
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsFranco NeroDalila Di LazzaroLara WendelMaria visits her paralyzed widower father Guido at a hotel. She tries seducing him. Her friend Therese arrives, and Guido starts an affair with her, leading to tragic consequences. Objective plot points without opinions or introduction.
- DirectorDusty NelsonStarsJoseph PilatoSusan ChapekJohn HarrisonWhile a small film crew are shooting a low budget horror movie in a house in the woods, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur, and the movie slowly starts to turn into a "snuff" film.
- DirectorTed BafaloukosStarsLeroy 'Horsemouth' WallaceRichard 'Dirty Harry' HallMonica CraigHorsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters reign of terror and restore justice to the people of Kingston.
- DirectorAnne Claire PoirierStarsJulie VincentGermain HoudePaul SavoieA director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsIb Koch-OlsenDocumentary exploring Denmarks ancient churches
- DirectorMichal Bat-AdamStarsMichal Bat-AdamBrigitte CatillonAssi DayanAnne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There's tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. Flash back five years to their meeting, on a train to Jerusalem. Yola invites Anne to stay at her hotel, and over the next five days, their friendship builds from talk about their lives to an explosive menage a trois when Avi joins them on fourth day. Back in the present, can Yola have both Avi and Anne, or are the women futilely chasing rainbows?
- DirectorZdenko GasparovicA short film which documents the animator's satirical outlook on life using only music and images to convey the message.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsLee RemickRobin EllisWesley AddyIt's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half sister. Gertrude, one of Wentworth's two daughters, is instantly infatuated with her cousins, thinking them sophisticated and worldly. She turns her back on the local Unitarian minister, Mr. Brand, who has been calling on her, to delight in the pleasure and amusement Felix offers. Another wealthy neighbor, Mr. Acton, is attracted to Eugenia, who is going through a divorce with a European aristocrat. Are the Americans being used by the penniless Europeans? Or is there real affection?
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsTom MannionEddie BurtRichard DemarcoRonnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion potion.
- DirectorJørgen RoosStarsHans Christian AndersenRolf Mamero
- DirectorOla BalogunStarsAde-LoveOyin AdejobiDuro Ladipo
- DirectorBent H. Barfod
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsFrano LasicMilan StrljicTanja PoberznikThree young men - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - are the best of friends in pre-World War II Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Germans and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of terror and gruesome massacres. The friends must now take different sides in a global conflict.
- DirectorJørgen Roos
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsSergey BondarchukGrigoriy AleksandrovEisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
- DirectorJørgen RoosStarsClive BaylissBill CaldwellOsvald HelmuthA documentary short that provides a view of mid-twentieth century Copenhagen, the Danish capital. You will see everyday people, tourist attractions, the waterfront, amusement parks, social institutions and living and forgotten history.
- DirectorBruno BozzettoStarsMaurizio NichettiMaurizio MicheliMarialuisa GiovanniniAn enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he's kept locked in a dungeon. Several different classical pieces are animated, while the animator plots his escape.
- DirectorJosé Luis BorauStarsÁngela MolinaJon FinchHarriet AnderssonEnglish scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.
- DirectorBruno Bozzetto
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiFarid ShawqiYehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
- DirectorJimmy PickerPresident Jimmy Carter "sings" Ray Charles' "Georgia on my Mind", while thinking about his home state.