5th Göteborg Film Festival (1983)
Göteborg Film Festival 1 Feb - 6 Feb 1983, complete list
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- DirectorDavid StevensStarsChris HaywoodSimon BurkeGerda NicolsonA series of humorous vignettes set in a clinic for venereal diseases. Although the film concentrates on relationships, it is also a source of instruction on safe sexual practices and STD (the script-writer worked at a clinic for three years!).
- DirectorKarin SwanströmStarsHarald AdelsohnElsa AdeniusWiktor AnderssonJohan Sjöborg and his wife Karin are on their way back to Sweden from New York. They arrive to Gothenburg just as the big exhibition is opening.
- DirectorNina GladitzWith the examples of Leni Riefenstahls "Tiefland" (1941) and "Fitzcarraldo" by Werner Herzog, Nina Gladitz pose a question about the responsibility of the artist.
- DirectorNina GladitzStarsJosef ReinhardtLeni RiefenstahlAn investigation of Leni Reifenstahl's infamous film production of "Teifland" during the holocaust, one which used Sinti extras under forced labor conditions. After filming finished in 1944, these extras were sent to Auschwitz
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsMargot KidderAnnie PottsRobert CarradineA young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.
- DirectorWerner BiedermannStarsDagmar AssauerFrank DöhmannHeinz GeigerEggtime, it's time for an egg.
- DirectorTaieb LouhichiStarsDespina TomazaniHélène CatzarasMouna NoureddineIn a poor and isolated Tunisian community, the chief's daughter learns that her husband's body has been returned dead, from a foreign land.
- DirectorOrlando RojasStarsHarry BelafonteLetta MbuluBiography of singer and actor Harry Belafonte.
- DirectorMarja PensalaStarsJuha OlavinenPirjo RavattinenA comedic view of a couple's eco-friendly lifestyle in the countryside and a role of a woman in our society.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsHeikki PaavilainenTimo TorikkaTero NivaJuuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil-drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken farm, but he wants to break free from his father, who has a new wife. Looking for work in Gothenburg, Sweden, he only runs into more problems and is deported back to Finland. Pyry would like to take over his late father's farm, but family quarrels over the estate make him quit his agricultural studies, and he and drifter Late take jobs in a steel mill in southern Finland.
- DirectorColin GreggStarsJohn AltmanMartin BarrassDavid JohnA group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
- DirectorJim JarmuschOriginal short that would later become the full feature-length film Stranger than Paradise. This segment would be renamed "The New World" in the film.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsNana IoselianiTamar GabarashviliMikhail NaneishviliMembers of a music band spending summer in the countryside watch the petty dramas play out among the local folks and among themselves.
- DirectorRivka HartmanStarsCathy DownesMorgan LewJulie McGregorFrances and Dorian live through the last few weeks of their dysfunctional relationship.
- DirectorBob CarmichaelStarsLynn Hill
- DirectorJannik HastrupStarsJesper Klein
- DirectorBretislav PojarAn agitation film for United Nations, preaching messages of peace. The whole world suffers and lives in poverty because most of the resources are spent on armaments. But what would it be like if helmets turned into full bowls of food, uniforms into new clothes and tanks into cleaning machines?
- DirectorJames P. LewisStarsDennis BrownAlthea ForrestNatty GarfieldReggae documentary of the One Love Peace Concert held in Kingston, Jamaica in 1978. In addition to the music, this film features the return to Jamaica of Bob Marley after a 16-month hiatus following an attempt on his life.
- DirectorTony De NonnoStarsItzhak Perlman
- DirectorYôichi TakabayashiStarsMasayo UtsunomiyaTomisaburô WakayamaMasaki KyômotoTo satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.
- DirectorWill VintonStarsJohn MorrisonTim ConnerBrian BresslerIn clay animation, the impersonator known as The Great Cognito literally transforms into countless faces of famous people.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAllen GarfieldSamuel FullerIsabelle WeingartenThe crew is running out of money to finish their film.
- DirectorGábor KoltayStarsLevente SzörényiJános BródyTibor CzipóConcert-documentary about the 1981 reunion of the legendary hungarian beat group Illés.
- DirectorOddvar Bull TuhusStarsSteinar RaaenRune DybedahlØyvind JaneschitzA gang of youths turns to grown ups, but they realize it's not all that trouble-less they had thought, so they decide to bring back their band and go on a tour before the adult life takes control.
- DirectorChristian BlackwoodStarsEartha KittKitt McDonaldCecil GoreyDocumentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsFrancis Ford CoppolaIsabelle WeingartenWim WendersWim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on Hammett (1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences between the film-making process in Europe and the States.
- DirectorDavid Andras
- DirectorMai ZetterlingStarsAmanda YorkChrissie CotterillElizabeth EdmondsA film in feminist reading of the vulgar genre of the 'women's prison film', which without voyeurism tells of violence among women and their relationships with each other.
- DirectorNedeljko DragicThis short animation is the author's cynical reaction to the contemporary international political situation.
- DirectorJosefina MolinaStarsLola HerreraDaniel DicentaNatalia DicentaActress Lola Herrera and her ex-husband, actor Daniel Dicenta, face the camera with honesty as they tell each other what they needed to about their professional and personal lives.
- DirectorDavid AndersonDavid Anderson's waking dream is a poetic animated journey through the rich fantasy life of a child's unconscious, combining elaborate cut-outs, intricate drawn cell animation and live action. A young boy finds himself in a mysterious express train travelling through a forbodeing and surreal landscape.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYutaka SadaTatsuya NakadaiAn executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
- DirectorNelly KaplanStarsBernadette LafontGeorges GéretHenri CzarniakAn oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier.
- DirectorGöran du RéesChristina OlofsonStarsMargarita AhlinLars AleråsCarina ErikssonJacob Anderssons alcoholism leads to his wife leaving him together with their daughter.
- DirectorRalph Arlyck
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsStingDenholm ElliottJoan PlowrightA strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
- DirectorCharles F. Shelton
- DirectorJørgen LethStarsJørgen LethKim LarsenAndy WarholAs a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA. With the one travelling shot (through a car windscreen) and one pan (across a landscape) the tableau principle is only breached on two occasions; exceptions that prove the rule, so to speak. The images or postcards may be viewed as a number of interlaced chains of motifs, varying from ultra close up to super wide, include pictures of landscapes, highways and advertising hoardings, buildings seen from without, mostly with a fluttering Stars and Stripes somewhere in the shot, objects such as coins on a counter, refrigerator with a number of typical food products, a plate of food at a diner or a bottle of Wild Turkey, and finally, people who introduce themselves (and sometimes the content of their lives in rough-hewn form) facing the camera: for example, the New York cabbie or the celebrities Kim Larsen and Andy Warhol. The film actually consists of 75 shots but in some cases several shots combine in one scene, thus ending on sixty six. Each scene is delimited by the narrator; at the end of each shot he pins down the picture content, often by a simple indication of time or place, but in some cases more playfully, often shifting our perception in a surprising fashion. Similarly the sound close-ups in some scenes are intended to alter the viewer's immediate interpretation of the picture content, while the mood-creating or interpretive use of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes (No. 5) provides the final component of the film.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsJean-Louis BarraultMarcello MastroianniHanna SchygullaDuring the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsJudy DavisRichard MoirChris HaywoodA planned housing development in the mid 70's designed for an upstart Cockney immigrant developer, becomes the centre of controversy as tenants and squatters in the older houses refuse to move.
- DirectorJohn DuiganStarsJudy DavisBryan BrownCathy DownesWhen a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of his former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friends diary, she discovers she's repeating her mistakes.
- DirectorIvan RencStarsLadislav Smoljak
- DirectorPeter DuffellStarsElizabeth EdmondsSue WallaceGeraldine GriffithsA shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales. She finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
- DirectorJoan HarveyStarsSue Jane AlsingRaymond W. ArvisoGert BastianAn anti-war feature length documentary.
- DirectorLance BirdTom JohnsonStarsMartin SheenPart of PBS series Matters of Life and Death, this being about the bomb-shelter craze of the 1950's.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsCharo Santos-ConcioJay IlaganVic SilayanA crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema. A controlling patriarch loses it over his daughter's marriage and her attempts to escape from their incestuous household.
- DirectorDavid AvidanWhile a poem being read and an Hassidic melody sung a naked woman on a bed moves with sexual pleasure, her limbs splayed cruciform as in ecstasy.
- DirectorClaus PlougStarsDick KaysøKaren-Lise MynsterPia ViethJacob Holme, a 38-year-old doctor, lives deeply-rooted in the world of normality with a medical practice, house, and marriage without excitement. He is drawn to a young schizophrenic girl and his wife leaves him.
- DirectorErkki PeltomaaStarsMarkku HuhtamoMarja-Leena Kouki