# 39th Venice International Film Festival

The 39th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 2 September 1982.
French filmmaker Marcel Carné was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was The State of Things directed by Wim Wenders.

## Jury

The following people comprised the 1982 jury:
* Marcel Carné, French filmmaker - Jury President
* Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker
* Mario Monicelli, Italian filmmaker
* Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian filmmaker
* Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker
* Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet filmmaker
* Valerio Zurlini, Italian filmmaker

## Official Sections
### In Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Agony | Агония | Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
| Apprehension | Die Beunruhigung | Lothar Warneke | East Germany |
| The Big Brother | Le grand frère | Francis Girod | France |
| Blow to the Heart | Colpire al cuore | Gianni Amelio | Italy, France |
| The Blue Planet | Il pianeta azzurro | Franco Piavoli | Italy |
| Chopin | Sciopèn | Luciano Odorisio | Italy |
| Crossroads | Grihajuddha | Buddhadev Dasgupta | India |
| The Dam | To fragma | Dimitris Makris | Greece |
| The Draughtsman's Contract | The Draughtsman's Contract | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom |
| An Egyptian Story | حدوتة مصرية | Youssef Chahine | Egypt |
| Estoy en crisis | Estoy en crisis | Fernando Colomo | Spain |
| The Eyes, the Mouth | Gli occhi, la bocca | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| Flight of the Eagle | Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd | Jan Troell | Sweden, West Germany, Norway |
| The Foreigner | A Estrangeira | João Mário Grilo | Portugal |
| A Good Marriage | Le Beau Mariage | Éric Rohmer | France |
| The Good Soldier | Il buon soldato | Franco Brusati | France |
| Grog | Grog | Francesco Laudadio | Italy |
| Guernica | Guernica | Ferenc Kósa | West Germany, Hungary |
| Hero | Hero | Barney Platts-Mills | United Kingdom |
| The Hes Case | De smaak van water | Orlow Seunke | Netherlands |
| Imperative | Imperativ | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| Last Five Days | Fünf letzte Tage | Percy Adlon | West Germany |
| Private Life | Частная жизнь | Yuli Raizman | Soviet Union |
| Querelle | Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | France |
| What Are We Waiting for to Be Happy! | Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! | Coline Serreau | France |
| The State of Things | Der Stand der Dinge | Wim Wenders | West Germany |
| Tempest | Tempest | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| The Trout | La Truite | Joseph Losey | France |
| The Voice | Golos | Ilya Averbakh | Soviet Union |

### Mezzogiorno-Mezzanotte

A section devoted to spectacular films (Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.), remakes (Vertigo, Leave Her to Heaven) or eccentrics.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Robert Altman | United States |
| Heaven's Gate | Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | United States |
| Poltergeist | Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | United States |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Blade Runner | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | United States |
| A Whole Night / All Night Long | Toute une nuit | Chantal Akerman | Belgium |

## Official Awards

The following awards were presented at the 39th edition:

### In Competition

* Golden Lion: The State of Things by Wim Wenders
* Special Jury Prize: Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
* Silver Lion for Best First Work:
** Sciopèn by Luciano Odorisio
** The Hes Case by Orlow Seunke

### Career Golden Lion

* Marcel Carné, Alessandro Blasetti, Luis Buñuel, Frank Capra, George Cukor, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergei Yutkevich, Alexander Kluge, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, King Vidor and Cesare Zavattini.

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prize

* Agony by Elem Klimov
* The State of Things by Wim Wenders

### OCIC Award

* Fünf letzte Tage by Percy Adlon
** Honorable Mention: Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi

### UNICEF Award

* De smaak van water by Orlow Seunke

### Pasinetti Award

* Best Film: Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
* Best Actor: Max von Sydow for Flight of the Eagle
* Best Actress: Susan Sarandon by Tempest

### Pietro Bianchi Award

* Renato Castellani

### Best Artistic Collaboration

* Mikhail Ulyanov for Private Life

### Golden Phoenix

* Best Actor: Robert Powell for Imperative
* Best Actress: Béatrice Romand for Le Beau Mariage