8th Göteborg Film Festival (1986)
Göteborg Film Festival 24 Jan - 2 Feb 1986, Short films not included
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- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsMarie LaforêtPhilippe LéotardMiguel Ángel SoláSome Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
- DirectorJack Haley Jr.StarsMikhail BaryshnikovRay BolgerSammy Davis Jr.The history of dance depicted on film.
- 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.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
- DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert BeltranAnnette CharlesAmérico GonzálezSet in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels. Eddie falls for a local girl, Marlena (Annette Cardona). However, when her father is killed by the Contras, things change.
- DirectorWieslaw SaniewskiStarsEwa BlaszczykTeresa SawickaGrazyna SzapolowskaA story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
- DirectorGyula GazdagStarsZoltán PaulinyiJános AtkáriLajos KelleryA high school summer camp doesn't go as expected: there's no work for the kids and they, out of boredom, sneak out to find some themselves.
- DirectorLee GrantStarsMonica Lynn B.Lee GrantChristine JorgensenFollows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"
- DirectorGreta SchillerRobert RosenbergStarsRita Mae BrownBruce NugentHenry OtisThe history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
- DirectorAdam BrooksStarsBrooke AdamsGriffin DunneKaren YoungAlex and Erica Boyer's marriage is in a crisis: Alex is bored by his job and his wife. When Erica has an accident that lands her in a wheelchair for some time, Alex meets Erica's young therapy assistant Lisa and wonders if she would be the end of his boredom and he could start over with her. But Lisa's boyfriend senses what's going on and goes after Alex.
- DirectorNouchka van BrakelStarsRenée SoutendijkErik van 't WoutAdriaan OlreeTragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working on the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
- DirectorCarl SchenkelStarsGötz GeorgeWolfgang KielingRenée SoutendijkTwo former lovers, an embezzler, and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.
- DirectorDimitri Frenkel FrankStarsGerard ThoolenBruno GanzRenée SoutendijkThe story of a Jewish man, escaped from Berlin in the beginning of World War II, now an owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. The city is a battlefield between local Germans and the resistance. The film shows how war destroys basic human relationships forever.
- DirectorRob EpsteinStarsHarvey FiersteinHarvey MilkAnne KronenbergA documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsFernando ReyFrancisco RabalVictoria AbrilOn the day he learns he has a year to live, a Spanish Cardinal who has lived in the Vatican for 30 years learns he has a granddaughter, born without a father to his own illegitimate daughter. Against the Pope's advice, he returns home to sort out his worldly affairs, including a vineyard that supplies the Vatican. He must find a way to influence his brother, an atheistic physician and a bachelor, his imperious mother, his former lover (now married and raising his granddaughter), her husband, and his daughter, a stylish prostitute. He plans to marry his daughter to his brother, legitimize his grandchild, and leave the land within the family. But life gets in the way.
- DirectorAlexander KlugeStarsJutta HoffmannArmin Mueller-StahlHans-Michael RehbergIn this film, Kluge continues his fascination with history, culture and cinema as he examines the close of the 20th century.
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsRobert DuvallKlaus Maria BrandauerMichal SkolimowskiA trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
- DirectorBob EllisStarsJohn ClaytonMichele FawdonNorman KayeMaureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover from years ago she decides he might be able to supply the wanted seed. But the scientific controls on their weekend encounter soon give way to natural urges and the consummation is concluded with tenderness.
- DirectorImre GyöngyössyBarna KabayStarsHédi TemessyFerenc ZentheGábor FehérAn elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsMarek ProboszZbigniew SuszynskiMiroslav MachácekAfter a murder of a gamekeeper who catches them red-handed having just downed a deer, two teenage boys, conceited Ruda (Marek Probosz) and shy Václav (Zbigniew Suszynski) go on the run through the woods.
- DirectorGyula GazdagStarsEvald SchormIstván IglódiLili MonoriTwo librettists, Mr. Rezso and Mr. Dezso arrive and pluck people living in a bare valley, in order to turn them into operetta characters. The two librettists come up with a plot in which selected young men and women are designated into two opposing groups, both claiming ownership and intending to take possession and restore a house in ruin. Their fierce battle is anticipated to turn into blissful love by the end. While the librettists attempt to shepherd judiciously the youngsters' relationships in the desired direction, the enactment is constantly derailed. Whenever the characters' instincts follow natural impulses, the creators relentlessly correct digressions, reverse undesired developments, sometimes by rewinding time and reenacting events, shaped into their liking. The Ageless Goddess of operetta appears and irons out the scheme by performing a Socialist Realist lullaby from 1947. Finally, all resemblance to the characters' original individuality is converted into clichés of operetta characters. The couples and their adversaries have been fixed into their happy matrimonial lives ever after.
- DirectorJaime de ArmiñánStarsFernando Fernán GómezAgustín GonzálezCarme EliasLeopoldo Contreras, an emeritus professor of Roman law, has serious economic problems. His translations of the classic authors do not give him enough money to live and he has had to sell even his flat. To remedy their situation is offered as a slave to an old student in exchange for house and food.
- DirectorTikoy AguiluzStarsSarsi EmmanuelleSuzanne LoveJosephine ManuelA boatman wants more than just paddle his canoe for tourists in his town famed for its waterfalls. He moves to Manila, and lands a job as a live-sex performer, and his partner sees in him a way out of the slums and the red light district.