 Festival poster | |
| Location | Venice,Italy |
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| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion:Vagabond |
| Festival date | 26 August – 6 September 1985 |
| Website | Website |
| Venice Film Festival chronology | |
The42nd annualVenice International Film Festival was held on 26 August to 6 September 1985.[1][2]
Polish filmmakerKrzysztof Zanussi was the Jury President of the main competition. TheGolden Lion winner wasVagabond directed byAgnès Varda.
The following people comprised the 1985 jury:[3]
The following films were selected to be screened:[4]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Guardian | Bekçi | Ali Özgentürk | Turkey, West Germany |
| Dust | Marion Hänsel | Belgium, France | |
| Glissando | Mircea Daneliuc | Romania | |
| Family Without a Dinner Table | Shokutaku no nai ie | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan |
| The Feather Fairy | Perinbaba | Juraj Jakubisko | Czechoslovakia, West Germany |
| Forget Mozart | Vergeßt Mozart | Miloslav Luther | West Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| Legend | Ridley Scott | United States | |
| Life Is Beautiful | Zivot je lep | Boro Draskovic | Yugoslavia |
| The Lightship | Jerzy Skolimowski | United States | |
| Mother Ebe | Mamma Ebe | Carlo Lizzani | Italy |
| No Man's Land | Alain Tanner | Switzerland, France, West Germany, United Kingdom | |
| Planet Parade | Парад планет | Vadim Abdrashitov | Soviet Union |
| The Lost Paradise | Los paraísos perdidos | Basilio Martín Patino | Spain |
| Tracks in the Snow | Pervola, sporen in de sneeuw | Orlow Seunke | Netherlands, Norway |
| Police | Maurice Pialat | France | |
| Prizzi's Honor | John Huston | United States | |
| Requiem for a Spanish Peasant | Réquiem por un campesino español | Francesc Betriu | Spain |
| The Satin Slipper | O Sapato de Cetim | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France |
| Stone Years | Petrina hronia | Pantelis Voulgaris | Greece |
| The Tango of Our Childhood | Մեր մանկության տանգոն / Танго нашего детства | Albert Mkrtchyan | Soviet Union |
| Tangos, the Exile of Gardel | Tangos, el exilio de Gardel | Fernando Solanas | Argentina, France |
| Vagabond | Sans toit ni loi | Agnès Varda | France |
| Woman of Wonders | La donna delle meraviglie | Alberto Bevilacqua | Italy |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orfeo | Claude Goretta | Italy, Switzerland, Canada, France | |
| Orpheus and Eurydice | Orfeusz és Euridike | István Gaál | Hungary |
| A Passage to India | James Ivory | United Kingdom | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | United States | |
| Cocoon | Ron Howard | ||
| Echo Park | Robert Dornhelm | ||
| Flesh and Blood | Paul Verhoeven | United States, Netherlands, Spain | |
| Fletch | Michael Ritchie | United States | |
| Karnabal | Carles Mira | Spain | |
| Letter to Brezhnev | Chris Bernard | United Kingdom | |
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | George Miller | Australia | |
| Running Out of Luck | Julien Temple | United States | |
| Silverado | Lawrence Kasdan | ||
| Tex and the Lord of the Deep | Tex e il signore degli abissi | Duccio Tessari | Italy |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adultery Tree | 자녀목 | Jung Jin-woo | South Korea |
| Come and See | Иди и смотри | Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
| Death of a Salesman | Volker Schlöndorff | United States | |
| Frida Still Life | Frida, naturaleza viva | Paul Leduc | Mexico |
| George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | George Stevens Jr. | United States | |
| Mi hijo el Che - Un retrato de familia de don Ernesto Guevara | Fernando Birri | Cuba | |
| Le neveu de Beethoven | Paul Morrissey | France | |
| Power of Evil | Le pouvoir du mal | Krzysztof Zanussi | France, West Germany, Italy |
| Signé Renart | Michel Soutter | France, Switzerland | |
| The Runner | Davandeh | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| Queen Kelly (1929) | Erich von Stroheim | United States | |
| Shanghai Blues | 上海之夜 | Hark Tsui | Hong Kong |
The following feature films were selected to be screened asIn Competition for this section:[5]
