Concha de Oro 1970-1979
Movies awarded or nominated at Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián during the '70s
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- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsMichael CaineCliff RobertsonIan BannenA reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.
- DirectorJanusz NasfeterStarsFilip LobodzinskiEdward DymekHenryk GolebiewskiKarol is a newcomer to the class and instantly called "sissy". He makes himself disliked by correcting his classmates and eating sandwiches, while everybody else eats dry bread and onions. He tries to make friends with class bully called Balon, and eventually succeeds. The group uses him to steal lollipops and later for an assault on a small child. The victim's mother seeks out the responsible and Karol is identified. He eventually confesses to his mother and names his accomplices. Branded now as a "squealer" he is avoided by his former friends. During a concert Karol collapses and is carried off.
- DirectorGlauber RochaStarsFrancisco RabalMarta MayRosa Maria PennaIn a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinates and frightens him. Diaz finds a countrywoman, symbol of purity, and prepares a ceremony in his castle resembling his own funeral.
- DirectorMarcello FondatoStarsClaudia CardinaleCatherine SpaakJohn Phillip LawMarta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
- DirectorJaroslav PapousekStarsJosef SebánekMarie MotlováFrantisek HusákIt is a beautiful Sunday and the Homolka family are having a picnic in a forest not far from Prague. The grandfather and grandmother have settled comfortably in the grass, their son Ludva romps about in the river with his two young twin sons and his podgy wife Hedus dances among the trees, while the beer gets cooled in the water.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsAlessio OranoOrnella MutiTano CimarosaA young poor girl receives a marriage proposal from a mafia novice. She's going to refuse, but he's going to insist - at all cost.
- DirectorAntónio da Cunha TellesStarsMaria CabralMiguel FrancoRuy de CarvalhoA look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encounters financial difficulties and finds herself involved with shady characters, a situation that leads to a mysterious murder. The net closes around her.
- DirectorEric TillStarsDavid HemmingsSamantha EggarEmlyn WilliamsA young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
- DirectorGyörgy RévészStarsZoltán LatinovitsÉva RuttkaiMari TörőcsikBased on the autobiographical novel by Frigyes Karinthy in which the author shares his experiences on finding out having a brain tumor and undergoing brain surgery in the 1930s.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJason RobardsStella StevensDavid WarnerA hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
- DirectorAnthony FriedmanStarsPaul ScofieldJohn McEneryThorley WaltersAn asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsBud CortShelley DuvallSally KellermanAn introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiySergey BondarchukIrina KupchenkoThe ordinary life of the Russian provincial intellectuals seems to them gray and bleak. Are exceptions possible?
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsReinhard HauffGeorg LehnKarl-Josef CramerIn an attempt to escape poverty in the 1800s, eight German farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the Hessian Hinterland.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Claude BrialyAurora CornuBéatrice RomandOn lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
- DirectorNadine TrintignantStarsCatherine DeneuveMarcello MastroianniSerge MarquandCatherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsDavid HemmingsCarolyn SeymourDouglas WilmerA new school teacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his pupils, and he fears the same will happen to him.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsVladimír DlouhýZdena HadrbolcováKarel HlusickaA boy keeps his spiritedness and optimism in spite of polio.
- DirectorRamón BarcoStarsMaría MahorDean SelmierEmiliano RedondoThis film explores the devolution of a woman entering middle age, loosing her relationship with men and her sanity. Possessed by doubts ,fears and suspicions which wear against her as she looses her grasp with reality. Ramon Barco was well before his time. A great director who struggled for years after this film to continue his career tragectory. He left us too soon.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsMia FarrowTopolMichael JaystonWhen a strait-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. His wife doesn't keep regular hours, so he suspects an affair and hires a detective (Topol). The wife notices she is being followed, and maintaining their distance she and the detective explore London for 10 days in a game of follow-the-leader without ever exchanging a word.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsSteve McQueenRobert PrestonIda LupinoAce Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsSerghei LuncheviciDumitru HãbãsescuJenea RolkoLeader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her.
- DirectorGonzalo SuárezStarsAna BelénVíctor ManuelMichael J. PollardThis Spanish thriller tells the story of two newlyweds and the uncanny happenings that attend their low-budget honeymoon.
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsPeter FinchShelley WintersColin BlakelyA man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.
- DirectorDick RichardsStarsGary GrimesBilly Green BushLuke AskewYoung farmboy who always wanted to be a cowhand talks a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.