33rd Venice International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Festival date | 21 August – 3 September 1972 |
| Website | Website |
The 33rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 21 August to 3 September 1972.
There was no jury because from 1969 to 1979 the festival was not competitive.[1][2][3] Charlie Chaplin, Anatoli Golovnya and Billy Wilder were awarded the Career Golden Lion.
Official Selection
The following films were selected to be screened:[4]
Venezia 33
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabaret | Bob Fosse | United States | |
| Calcutta 71 | Mrinal Sen | India | |
| The Candidate | Michael Ritchie | United States | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom | |
| The Conspirators | Os Inconfidentes | Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Brazil |
| The Dawns Here Are Quiet | А зори здесь тихие | Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union |
| Dear Summer Sister | 夏の妹 | Nagisa Ōshima | Japan |
| Felix and Otilia | Felix si Otilia | Iulian Mihu | Romania |
| Field Lilies | Lalie polné | Elo Havetta | Czechoslovakia |
| Floch | Dan Wolman | Israel | |
| A Free Woman | Strohfeuer | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany |
| Klara Lust | Kjell Grede | Sweden | |
| Life of a Shock Force Worker | Slike iz života udarnika | Bahrudin Čengić | Yugoslavia |
| Made | John Mackenzie | United Kingdom | |
| The Master and Margaret | Majstor i Margarita | Aleksandar Petrović | Yugoslavia |
| The Merchant of Four Seasons | Händler der vier Jahreszeiten | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| My Friend Robinson | Mein lieber Robinson | Roland Gräf | East Germany |
| Nathalie Granger | Marguerite Duras | France | |
| Obscured by Clouds | La Vallée | Barbet Schroeder | France |
| Play It As It Lays | Frank Perry | United States | |
| Salome | Salomé | Carmelo Bene | Italy |
| Savage Messiah | Ken Russell | United Kingdom | |
| A Separate Peace | Larry Peerce | United States | |
| Siddhartha | Conrad Rooks | United States, India | |
| Szindbád | Zoltán Huszárik | Hungary | |
| Tout Va Bien | Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Groupe Dziga Vertov | France | |
| Tutte le domeniche mattina | Carlo Tuzii | Italy | |
Venezia Giovani
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harder They Come | Perry Henzell | Jamaica | |
| I Was Nineteen | Ich war neunzehn | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King | Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | West Germany |
| Narco: A Film About Love | Narko - en film om kærlighed | Claus Ørsted | Denmark |
| Night of the Flowers | La notte dei fiori | Gian Vittorio Baldi | Italy |
| Planet Venus | Pianeta Venere | Elda Tattoli | Italy |
| The Ragman's Daughter | Harold Becker | United Kingdom | |
| Sea of Silence | Bas ya Bahar | Khalid Al Siddiq | Kuwait |
| Tonight or Never | Heute nacht oder nie | Daniel Schmid | Switzerland |
| The Two Seasons of Life | Les deux saisons de la vie | Samy Pavel | France |
| You and Me | Ты и я | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
Venezia Critici
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ağıt | Yilmaz Güney | Turkey | |
| Her Third | Der Dritte | Egon Günther | East Germany |
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter | Wim Wenders | West Germany |
| Take Two | הצד השני | Baruch Dienar | Israel |
| Foreigners | Jag heter Stelios | Johan Bergenstråhle | Sweden |
| The Time of the Hunt | Le temps d'une chasse | Francis Mankiewicz | Canada |
| My Childhood | Bill Douglas | United Kingdom | |
| Daughter-In-Law | Nevestka | Khodzha Kuli Narliyev | Soviet Union |
| Nidhanaya | Lester James Peries | Sri Lanka | |
| The Postman | پستچی | Dariush Mehrjui | Iran |
| The Power and the Truth | Puterea și adevărul | Manole Marcus | Romania |
| Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe | Satyadev Dubey | India | |
Official Awards
- Best First Film: My Childhood by Bill Douglas[5]
Independent Awards
Venezia Giovani Award
- Best First Film: Les deux saisons de la vie by Samy Pavel
FIPRESCI Prize
- The Cruel Sea by Khalid Al Siddiq
- Seemabaddha by Satyajit Ray
Pasinetti Award
- Best Foreign Film: A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
Notes
- The 34th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 26 August to 11 September 1975.[6]
References
- ^ "Venice Biennale: the Venice Film Festival-History and facts of the world's oldest Film Festival". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "The 1970′s". Retrieved October 8, 2013.
- ^ "Juries for the 1970′s". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "33. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema". labiennale.org. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ "My Childhood UK, 1972 (MIFF 1973)". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "Venice Film Festival-1975". Retrieved October 7, 2013.