41st (1984) Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion competitors

In the aftermath of World War II, an American soldier falls in love with a Polish woman, and offers his help of leaving the country. But the circumstances turns out otherwise.

Angela serves during Finland's Continuation War (1941-1944) as a nurse at a war hospital. There she meets Thomas Schmidt, a German officer who, in part, lost his memory due to her injuries. They fall in love.

When Adam and Eve, having succumbed to Lucifer's temptation, are expelled from the Garden of Eden, Adam makes Lucifer keep his promise. Lucifer then grants Adam a dream of the world to come.

A journalist wants to make a film about the life and death of Claretta Petacci, the mistress of Benito Mussolini. For this, she will turn to her sister Miriam.

An American theatre professor travels to the Sorbonne in Paris to complete his doctoral research on the effectiveness of Greek comedy on morale and motivation of factory workers at the local automobile plant. Lunacy erupts, mayhem ensues.

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in an unusual Paris.

Louise is a suburban young interior decorator divided between a boyfriend, a lover (who is married) and the wish of having some fulfillment and some balance in her life. A change to reach some independence comes when she rents a small apartment.

The story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for a while, the relationship between the three protagonists is strange, at the very least.

A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.

A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...

At the end of WWII, Ivan returns home to Pennsylvania from the nightmares of a brutal Japanese POW camp, to his childhood friend, Maria. But he has rivals for her love.

A man who killed the son of the owner of the land they worked on for hanging on his wife, bury him in the barn. From this moment on, a spiritually tense process begins for the man and his wife.

The dates of the exhibit have been set. Bernd Hoffmann is in Lisbon, which he had already visited in 1974, when he met the young artist Hanna Brauer. The exhibit will present paintings by both artists. Bernd is waiting for Hanna, but neither she nor her paintings seem to have arrived in Portugal. And yet he knows that the woman is in Lisbon. He looks for her among his old revolutionary friends, then turns to the police for help. He discovers that Hanna is dead. A natural death? Suicide?

This is Goutam Ghose's speculative commentary on poverty and exploitation in rural Bihar, based on Bengali story Paathi.

The real story takes of Bruneri/Canella case (Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic suffering from amnesia. Mrs Ballerini, after had seen his picture complains he is her husband and brings him her home. They start living a regular life, even if the man still couldn't remember his past. When also Mrs Polacich recognizes him as her husband a process is set up. Italian audience is literally shared in two parties supporting one or the other family. Mrs. Ballerini will succeed anyway to come back together with her presumed husband and escape with him to Brazil. Years later also the Vatican will recognize their two children as 'legally conceived' under catholic laws.

A nun becomes involved in an on-going labor strike. She starts out non-politicized, but later learns about the plight of the simple working man and inevitably, the government's neglect of the poor masses. Filipino Tagalog movie.

Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.

Ángel is an aging professor, a lonely widower without purpose. His lovely, spirited neighbor, Terese, interrupts his suicide attempt when she comes to borrow wine. She invites him for dinner and he meets her lover, Alberto, and their young child. Terese captivates him, he develops a school-boy's crush, and when Alberto invites him to write something for their theatre troupe, called the Stilts, he jumps at the chance. When he's not writing, he spends every waking hour with the Stilts. They take him in. It's not enough for Ángel: he begs Terese to spend time alone with him, and they do become lovers. He's obsessed. It cannot last: what will he do when she breaks it off?

Young W. A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.

A young Dane, Erik goes to Greenland to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, whom the natives called "Tukuma" (the one who is always busy). Erik has his own troubles from the past, but during his stay in Greenland he is changed forever, after getting in touch with mother nature for the first time in his life.

Quin Nan, a youth just returned to Shanghai, makes her living as a tailor. She is having difficulty finding an appropriate place to set up a shop. Her neighbour, Gao Zhihua, who has also just returned from the countryside, offers her a place next to his bicycle repair shop.

Gavino Ledda, teacher, writer, author of the autobiographical book "Padre padrone" (whence the Taviani brothers' film) made his directorial debut with this film which in many ways is a sequel to "Padre padrone". The protagonist (personified by Ledda himself) returns to the country where he finds hostile people (because he studied, because he went to the continent, because he wanted to be different from them). Gavino retires to his old farmhouse, where between meditations and dreams (he will dream of being Leonardo da Vinci) he rediscovers his true identity.