7th Göteborg Film Festival (1985)
Göteborg Film Festival 29 Jan - 3 Feb 1985, complete list
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- DirectorGirish KarnadStarsRekhaAmjad KhanKulbhushan KharbandaBased on the circa 2nd century BCE to 2nd Century CE, Sanskrit play "Daridra-Charudatta" by the famous Indian playwright Bhasa, "Utsav" faithfully follows Bhasa's story-line. Vasantasena, a courtesan who dances at the King Palaka's court hides in Charudatta's house while running away from the amorous attentions of the king's brother-in-law. She falls in love with Charudatta, though he is married and penniless. They have an affair. Meanwhile, the rightful heir to the throne - King Palaka's brother - escapes from prison. While he is being pursued by the king's troops, Charudatta helps him. The king's brother-in-law strangles Vasantasena when she refuses to submit to him and leaves her for dead. When Charudatta tries to have her jewels pawned, he is arrested for her murder. What happens to him and the other characters constitutes the final part of the film.
- DirectorKurt GloorStarsMichael KönigLisi MangoldHannelore Elsner
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsRob ReinerMichael McKeanChristopher GuestSpinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsLothar LambertDagmar BeiersdorfHans MarquardtA mousey, mild-mannered, mid-thirties bank clerk visits a cabaret and discovers his taste for drag and for the club's techie.
- StarsMarita BreuerRüdiger WeigangKurt WagnerThe village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982.
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsLeos SucharípaLibuse PospísilováVlasta SpicnerováThis film was made as a kind of a "protest-song" against the panic fear of getting old and also against flirtation. The main character (played by Leos Sucharípa) is an elderly man, admittedly competent, but not very responsible. In the continuous fear, he is trying to do as much as he can but, instead of confidence, he only finds out that in the real life one cannot just take but must give as well. Last but not least, one must be able to resign to his age.
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsIrene PapasClaudia OhanaMichael LonsdaleWhile Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
- DirectorYoshimitsu MoritaStarsYûsaku MatsudaJûzô ItamiSaori YukiJapanese parents hire a tutor for their foolish son and get a critic of their lifestyle.
- DirectorLes BlankStarsDick PillarWalter SzczypulaJimmy Sturr & His OrchestraA portrait of the life, culture and food surrounding the lovers of Polka music. The title is taken from an old Polka standard. Stars of the Polka world are highlighted.
- DirectorDerek HartDirector Derek Hart takes us where we've never been and shows us what we've never seen backstage at St. Petersburg's famed Kirov Ballet--arguably the best classical ballet troupe in the world. The company was responsible for producing Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker as well as Baryshnikov, Makarova, Nureyev, Pavlova and Nijinsky.
- DirectorRobert MuggeStarsAl GreenWillie MitchellKen TuckerThe story of R&B singer Al Green, who gave up a successful singing career to become a gospel minister.
- DirectorRobert MuggeStarsGil Scott-HeronEd BradyRobert GordonA portrait of the blues poet Gil Scott-Heron, who gives a personal tour of Washington, D.C. and performs a concert with his Midnight Band.
- DirectorRichard EyreStarsIan HolmPenelope WiltonRichard HopeA farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his five thousand geese, one hundred miles to market.
- DirectorSamir ZikraStarsAbd Elfatah AlmozyenAli AssedNizar CharabyA journey into the world of the young employee, Subhi Al Hallouji, who has a conservative cultural background. As women occupy the center of his thinking, he appears to be an impeccable person. However, he experiences a confusing emotional relationship with a girl he meets by chance.
- DirectorTerje KristiansenStarsTerje KristiansenVibeke LøkkebergTonje Kleivdal KristiansenA love story about an actor, Arne Strømberg, which struggles with the changes between love and anger, and his roles as a macho man, family father and husband.
- DirectorSeán O'MórdhaStarsTony DoyleDavid WarrilowPatrick MageeA documentary film shot on location in Dublin and France which traces the artistic life of Samuel Beckett through his prose, plays and poetry.
- DirectorRichard LowensteinStarsChris HaywoodCarol BurnsHugh Keays-ByrneThe dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.
- DirectorSheila McLaughlinLynne TillmanStarsSheila McLaughlinVictoria BoothbyLee BreuerStylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsWieslaw MichnikowskiJerzy StuhrOlgierd LukaszewiczTwo scientists are placed into a 3-year hibernation, but when they wake up, it turns out to have been 50 years, and they are the only two males in a new underground society composed exclusively of women.
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsAntonio ResinesBeatriz Pérez PorroRoy HoffmanA Spaniard photographer (Antonio Resines) goes to New York in an attempt of selling his work. Despite his broken English and his shyness, he meet two editors that could be interested in publishing his pictures. However, his dreams of fame vanish when he realizes that his photographs are considered old-fashioned by the American publishers.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsJulie ChristieColette LaffontHilary WestlakeAn avant-garde exploration of a woman's life.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsFreek de JongeJim van der WoudeCatrien WolthuizenA teenage boy (the Illusionist), dreams of becoming a magician. After his mentally challenged brother is taken to a mental institution due to an attempted strangling, the Illusionist starts a journey to rescue him from being lobotomized.
- DirectorGábor KoltayStarsLászló PelsöczyMiklós VargaGyula VikidálAfter the death of Géza, the Hungarian monarch, his son István and his brother Koppány gets in a conflict for the Hungarian throne. Their battle should settle the fate of Hungary: whether it adopts Christianity or remains in Paganism.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsEric RichardLorraine BrunningKay StonhamThree postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsMargaret HeeryRichard GriffithsAlan GauntA window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsRachel DaviesPauline MoranJulie NorthA couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed.
- 1975– 5m6.3 (100)TV EpisodeDirectorMike LeighStarsRichard IresonCelia QuickeA slow-witted couple decide to start a family.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsFernando Fernán GómezFrédéric de PasqualeJavier GarcíaPablo, a strange young man who only feeds on wild fruits, is lost in the forest. A psychologist saves him from an attack of wild dogs and tries to help him from his psychological strangeness. He verifies that the dogs become aggressive when they pass to his side and that the people of the place affirm that he is a wild one. The psychologist will struggle to help him and discover the truth.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsBrid BrennanDes McAleerPaula HamiltonA Catholic and a Protestant couple in Northern Ireland have amazing parallels in their lives, despite being either side of the divide.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsTim SternRobert PuttA man relentlessly bombards another man with small talk, while the other man tries to fend for himself while using crutches.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsHerbert NorvilleBilly ColvillAntony CarrickA boy goes to see his probation officer.
- DirectorMarianne RosenbaumStarsPeter FondaSaskia TyrollerHans BrennerA movie about little Marianne's life in a little German village 1943-1950. The peace comes in the shape of an American soldier who brings chewing gum to all the children, a soldier they call Mr. Frieden. Marianne's head is filled with fear of war and belief that the war will come back.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnny OndraJohn LongdenSara AllgoodAfter killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
- DirectorGeorg af KlerckerStarsNils Olaf ChrisanderMaja CasselManne GöthsonAbout a group of villains stealing a formula for an explosive. They kidnap the daughter of the man who owns the formula, because she has seen them steal it.
- DirectorGeorg af KlerckerStarsMary JohnsonCarl BarcklindArtur RolénA private investigator is invited to come to an address. He realizes that it is a trap and take some precautions before going there. Once in place, he is overpowered and tied to a chair with a time bomb.
- DirectorJohn HansonStarsLisa EichhornTom BowerJames CadaShedding her abusive husband, June starts life anew by taking a job as a heavy-machinery operator in an otherwise all-male Minnesota iron mine.
- DirectorChristian Braad ThomsenStarsGotha AndersenBruno BjørnPeter BoesenLaura and Micha travel the Danish countryside performing their off-beat cabaret show. Their personal lives suffer as a result of their dedication to their craft, yet the chaos that ensues becomes the grist for their revue.
- DirectorErik ClausenStarsLeif SylvesterErik ClausenBjørn UglebjergDuring a strike a worker is killed, one of his coworkers decide to reunite his old sixties band and go on the road again. This time without playing cover versions of old song, they want to make their own music, as a tribute to his dead friend.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEdward FlemingKirsten OlesenA German officer visits his Danish mistress the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.
- DirectorJørgen Roos
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsMichael ElphickEsmond KnightMe Me LaiA cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsPeter Hesse OvergaardMichael FalchMette Munk PlumIn the littered poor eighties, John lives quietly and confined, while René almost throws himself into reality. Still, the two young people become friends.
- DirectorAnssi MänttäriStarsPaavo PiskonenRiitta HavukainenTiina BergströmA married man, bored of his wife and family, and a lonely younger woman meet at a bar and spend a night together.
- DirectorAnssi MänttäriStarsLiisa HalonenAntti LitjaMarkku ToikkaThe Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsLine Arlien-SøborgJesper KleinCarsten JørgensenIn Århus, Denmark, mom's in hospital, pregnant, while dad and 16 y.o.daughter are spending time together painting the baby room. Dad can't accept that his daughter has grown up with interest in guys etc. Instead, he turns to spying on her.
- DirectorEija-Elina BergholmStarsIda-Lotta BackmanMathieu CarrièreJörn DonnerAngela 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.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMarkku HalmeMinna SoisaloSakari RouvinenThe great merit of film is that it never starts to moralize or give forced explanations, as is customary in many films about crimes.
- DirectorNaoto YamakawaTwo pals suffer from an insatiable hunger and decide to rob a local communist bakery run, occupied by a Wagner loving shop keep and a lone indecisive woman contemplating her next meal.
- DirectorCsaba VargaAugusta tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful.
- DirectorNaoto YamakawaStarsKassei KumamotoShigeru MuroiKazunao SakaguchiA guy passes by on the street a girl who is "a pure 100% all him".
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaA documentary of the caryatids in Paris accompanied by the poetry of Baudelaire and the music of Offenbach.
- DirectorLeif ErlsboeStarsMagnus E. HaslundJoachim CalmeyerAnne KrigsvollThe summer Lars turned 12, he still feels he should stay away from the girls, but the prostitute Lill teaches him to dance tango. He also have an uncle with a motorbike.
- DirectorLesley Keen
- DirectorLesley Keen
- DirectorPhil AustinDerek W. HayesStarsRobert LlewellynBernie EvansA race of aliens living on a floating island prepares to hunt the giant Skywhales whose origins are slowly unveiled.
- DirectorPeter LordDavid SproxtonStarsRoger DayJohn BullThe morning shift at a big-city radio station.
- DirectorPeter LordDavid SproxtonAn exclusive look behind the scenes of a magazine production.
- DirectorPeter LordDavid SproxtonAged travellers reminisce about halcyon holidays of old.
- DirectorPeter LordDavid SproxtonA door-to-door salesman tries to use the gift of the gab to sell an elderly couple things they don't really need.
- DirectorRiitta NelimarkkaJaakko Seeck
- DirectorRiitta NelimarkkaJaakko Seeck
- DirectorLennart GustafssonAn animated short film series, featuring Aber and his adventures.
- DirectorLennart GustafssonA continuation of the adventures of Aber in this animated film short and part of the "Bästa knattefilmerna 4" collection.
- DirectorLennart GustafssonThe continuing adventures of the animated anti-hero Aber - this time, in the gym.
- DirectorLennart GustafssonPart of the continuing animation films about the adventures of Aber - this time, at a slalom contest.
- DirectorKarl Gunnar Holmqvist
- DirectorStig BergqvistJonas OdellStarsHåkan SernerAn animated short film for children, from the book of the same title by Gunnar Berefelt.
- DirectorMax AnderssonA shocking observation to rock music, of human birth and decay in the era of militarism and rearmament.
- DirectorJohan Hagelbäck
- DirectorPaul DriessenStarsPaul DeenWilliam Ashley
- DirectorPaul DriessenA train runs through an old couple's home, constantly disrupting their peace.
- DirectorPaul DriessenStarsPeter BiermanA man's dinner that inexplicably starts speaking to him is merely the start to a very strange series of events.
- DirectorPaul DriessenA knight braves various dangers in order to rescue a damsel in distress.
- DirectorPaul DriessenShort animation telling three stories - of a man at home, a boat at sea and a bird. All three are seen simultaneously via a split screen and occasionally coincide.
- DirectorPaul DriessenStarsPeter BiermanAart Staartjes
- DirectorPaul DriessenStarsRobert PaulPeter Bierman
- DirectorBørge RingStarsTonny HuurdemanAnnemieke RingPeter RingTwo sisters look back on their life together.
- DirectorCasper VerbruggeA man discovers he has an attraction to a friend's daughter. His thoughts disturb him and make him feel that he must suppress these emotions whatever happens.
- DirectorMarion Bloem
- DirectorHans NassensteinA sad looking man wanders the earth after it has been destroyed by a nuclear war.
- DirectorDini Damave
- DirectorAntti PeippoStarsMarkku BlomqvistKarl Gustav MannerheimIvan TimiryasevWhen Finland was under Russian domination,a Czarist colonel takes photos of the country during a 27 year period, including some of troops in battle.
- DirectorAntti Peippo
- DirectorAntti PeippoStarsEsko Salminen
- DirectorAntti PeippoPhotographs of the 1944 bombing of Helsinki are set against modern images of the city's still pockmarked facades.
- DirectorKjell FjørtoftStarsKjell FjørtoftOdd FurøyAdolf Hitler
- DirectorJuha RosmaStarsErkki LuomalaIlkka UotilaAku Ahjolinna
- DirectorStefan Jarl
- DirectorJösta HagelbäckStarsJösta HagelbäckLars KristianssonErik ÖstlingBased on the conversations Jösta Hagelbäck and Erik Ostlund had with Lars Kristiansson, a professor of information theory with data communication at Chalmers University in Gothenburg,Sweden. The talks took place at the difficult cancer sufferer Kristiansson's sick-bed and dealt with his insights in computer technology, his hopes and fears for the new technology, the role of religion, the history of mathematics, reasoning about algebra, analytic geometry and the fourth dimension, along with cultural outlooks over the Western society's lack of mysticism and spiritual values.
- DirectorJean HermansonTorgny SchunnessonAbout the closure of the Öresund shipyard in Landskrona, Sweden, in 1982. The shipyard's last boat will go off the rails. It is a Dutch container ship, m / s Woensdrecht, which will be based in Rotterdam.
- DirectorMats Olof OlssonStarsAnders Åberg
- DirectorBrita LandoffStarsBo Anders PerssonFilmpoem about the demolition of the prison walls of Långholmen. Recorded in the central prison and in the chancellor.
- DirectorJanne WallinStarsLena AnderssonLisa BülowAnders KarlssonMy father was a cop. And not a nice one. A bad cop. A young policeman enters the profession in the good old days. Getting older, more cynical and violent as the day passes into the modern days of crime.
- DirectorBengt WendinStarsBirgitta AlexiusMargareta BergströmLotta Insulander-LindhFive women appear openly and tell about how they were abused and what it meant for their perception of themselves and men.
- DirectorAgneta Fagerström-OlssonJohn OlssonAbout the village Hårga in Hälsingland, Sweden, and the family of sheep-farmer Georg Olsson.
- DirectorYasha AginskyFilmed at homes in rural southwest Louisiana, this film presents six masters of traditional Cajun music : Denis McGee, Wallace 'Cheese' Read, Canray Fontenot, Leopold Francois, Robert Jardell and Dewey Balfa, singing and playing traditional songs and tunes and talking about their music, their lives, their work and their environment. Representing a diversity of ethnic origins, ages and social classes, they all continue to speak in the French language as well as English.
- DirectorYasha AginskyIn a motel room in Oakland, California, blind blues harmonica great Sonny Terry tells a story about his start in show business and then plays an original solo in his own amazing style, created in over 50 years of playing.