32nd Venice International Film Festival

The 32nd annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 25 August to 6 September 1971.

32nd Venice International Film Festival

Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Festival date	25 August – 6 September 1971
Website	Website

There was no jury because from 1969 to 1979 the festival was not competitive.^[1][2][3] John Ford, Marcel Carné and Ingmar Bergman were awarded with the Career Golden Lion.

Official Selections

The following films were selected to be screened:^[4]

Main selection

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Anna		Jörn Donner	Finland
The Arp Statue		Alan Sekers	United Kingdom
The Beginning	Начало	Gleb Panfilov	Soviet Union
Beware of a Holy Whore	Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	West Germany
The Big Mess	Der große Verhau	Alexander Kluge	RFA
The Cow	گاو	Dariush Mehrjui	Iran
Dead Aim	Arde baby, arde	José Bolaños	Mexico
Dear Irene	Kære Irene	Christian Braad Thomsen	Denmark
The Devils		Ken Russell	United Kingdom
Early Morning	Le petit matin	Jean-Gabriel Albicocco	France
Fortune and Men's Eyes		Harvey Hart	United States, Canada
The Guest	L'ospite	Liliana Cavani	Italy
Horizon	Horizont	Pál Gábor	Hungary
In the Summertime	Durante l'estate	Ermanno Olmi	Italy
The Last Movie		Dennis Hopper	United States
Lenz		George Moorse	West Germany
Liberxina 90		Carlos Durán	Spain
Liebe, so schön wie Liebe		Klaus Lemke	West Germany
M comme Mathieu		Jean-François Adam	France
The Nightcomers		Michael Winner	United Kingdom
On n'arrête pas le printemps		René Gilson	France
La piazza vuota		Beppe Recchia	Italy
Il potere		Augusto Tretti	Italy
Pratidwandi		Satyajit Ray	India
The Role of My Family in the Revolution	Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji	Bahrudin Čengić	Yugoslavia
Smic Smac Smoc		Claude Lelouch	France
Sunday Bloody Sunday		John Schlesinger	United Kingdom
The Third Part of the Night	Trzecia czesc nocy	Andrzej Zulawski	Poland
The Tricky Game of Love	Hry lásky sálivé	Jiří Krejčík	Czechoslovakia
La vacanza		Tinto Brass	Italy
Vagabond Humor	L'humeur vagabonde	Édouard Luntz	France
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?		Ulu Grosbard	United States
Y que patatín, y que patatán		Mario Sábato	Argentina

Informativa

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Dodes'ka-den	どですかでん	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
The Red Detachment of Women	红色娘子军	Xue Jinghua	China
Spring	Le Printemps	Marcel Hanoun	France
Uski Roti		Mani Kaul	India

Official Awards

Career Golden Lion

• John Ford
• Marcel Carné
• Ingmar Bergman

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

• The Cow by Dariush Mehrjui

Pasinetti Award

• Best Foreign Film: The Devils by Ken Russell
• Best Italian Film: La vacanza by Tinto Brass

CIDALC Award

• The Last Movie by Dennis Hopper

Golden Rudder

• The Guest by Liliana Cavani