9th Göteborg Film Festival (1987)
Göteborg Film Festival 30 Jan - 8 Feb 1987, complete list
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- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsDexter GordonFrançois CluzetGabrielle HakerA troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
- DirectorPaul DriessenShort animated story of a castaway and his reflection on a remote island.
- DirectorMark ObenhausStarsLucinda ChildsPhilip GlassWill LymanThe creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera.
- DirectorLaurie AndersonStarsLaurie AndersonJoy AskewAdrian BelewConcert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, which incorporate a unique blend of film, animation, dance, and electronics.
- DirectorMax AnderssonStarsMax AnderssonSpik-Bebis (Nail-baby) lives in a warehouse. He starts the day by hitting a nail into his head.
- DirectorStefan PaulStarsMercedes Sosa
- DirectorGlenn SilberClaudia VianelloStarsPeter CoyoteBill GrahamTells the story of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, whose creations reflect 25 years of social protest in America. The troupe's unique performing style includes comedy, satire, drama, music and dance mixed with strong political statements.
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsKris KristoffersonKeith CarradineLori SingerThe lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsGeneviève BujoldKeith CarradineLesley Ann WarrenLove doctor radio host Nancy, bar owner Eve, Pearl, drifter Mickey et al meet in LA.
- DirectorPeter OrmrodStarsStephen BrennanEamon MorrisseyCatherine ByrneTwo young Irish men are watching an old Elvis Presley movie in which a carnival cyclist performs an act called the Wall of Death. Transfixed, they decide to put together their own "Wall of Death."
- DirectorFrancois AubryStarsSuzanne CloutierAndré PietteLauraine ChasleMusical notes have productive lives as a strings band plays.
- DirectorKarl FrancisStarsJames DonnellyBernard LathamRobert PughA young Welsh soldier on duty in northern Ireland shoots a terrorist in self defense and is used as scapegoat by the political system.
- StarsElizabeth MacLennanJames GrantGregor FisherA woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950's to the 1970's.
- DirectorAlain CavalierStarsCatherine MouchetHélène AlexandridisAurore PrietoA story of life of St. Therese of Lisieux.
- DirectorClaire DeversStarsFrancis FrappatJacques MartialJoséphine FressonAntoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The owner, M. Roland, encourages Antoine to use the facilities, including the massages, so Antoine goes to Dominique, a muscular African. In these sessions, Antoine discovers that the pain is comforting, and Dominique finds the accountant ideal for his own sadism. When Dominique breaks Antoine's arm and then goes to the hospital to take Antoine away, Antoine confesses his fascination with and fear of death. With Dominique's help, the accountant breaks all earthly ties to confront his fear.
- DirectorCarlo RolaStarsIris BerbenA nun leaves the monastery to do some shopping. Due to a satanic misunderstanding, she becomes a triple murderer.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsMarie RivièreMaría Luisa GarcíaVincent GauthierIt's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...
- DirectorHeidi BlomkvistStarsDamir AndreiA young girl from Hades discovers Christmas on Earth.
- DirectorJovan AcinStarsGala VidenovicRelja BasicNebojsa BakocevicIn 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsMaja KomorowskaScott WilsonHanna SkarzankaIn 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.
- DirectorEva StefankovicováStarsMonika HorákováSuzana KrupicováJaromír RostinskýSisters Helena and Vlasta have a different focus. One wants to win a hairdressing competition, the other dreams of a modeling career. Gradually, the girls discover that they have to face the ups and downs in life.
- DirectorPeter HledíkStarsPatrik SímaJán KrízikBoris TrstanSchoolboys discover that if sitting in a certain rocky cliff area in the forest, they can memorize anything they read there for exams the following day. Turns out the rocky cliff has a cave in which they make an incredible discovery. Great sci-fi film!
- DirectorGeorge Stevens Jr.StarsFred AstaireWarren BeattyPandro S. BermanBiography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.
- DirectorRichard CondieStarsJay BrazeauIda OslerRandy WoodsA couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsAlan LaddJean ArthurVan HeflinA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiNaseeruddin ShahOm PuriA parable of man's exploitation of his fellow man. A weaver and a farmer live peacefully on the edge of a desert until, one day, a woman wanders into their world, and her presence slowly disrupts their routine existence.
- DirectorUtpalendu ChakrabartyStarsBijoy DeyNoni GangulyRohini HattangadiThis powerful and realistic film is a study of poverty, illiteracy, natural calamities and the toll they take on the human soul. the story of a rural couple who're trying to survive on the road with many others like them, after their village was destroyed by a flood. the wife gives birth to a deformed baby, which is pronounced as a 'child of the devil' by the local pundit (Hindu priest), who forces them to abandon the child and exiles them from the community. the journey takes the couple towards a bizarre and heart-breaking conclusion.
- DirectorAlbert KishStarsEmperor Franz JosefKaiser Wilhelm IITsar Nicholas IIThis short showcases the inventions that changed the world, like the telegraph, telephone, and railroads that changed the world before the outbreak of World War I.
- DirectorRobert GardnerA look at daily life in the city of Benares, India, one of the most religious places in the country.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenMartti SyrjäLeena HarjupatanaGiancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland, Maria. He arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and invades her apartment, but it's deserted. He runs into her brother Martti and, although they don't speak each other's languages, they go to search for her together.
- DirectorGarri BardinStarsZinoviy GerdtMikhail DerzhavinAn unusual boxing match.
- DirectorJaakko PyhäläStarsHeidi KilpeläinenPetri AaltoVille VirtanenAimless Mårten, almost thirty, spends his days in an unspecified hospital job and his nights around Helsinki's bars. He meets edgy and distant Ursula who still goes to high school, yet has a young son whom she pretty much ignores. Mårten and Ursula drift into a get-rich scheme concocted by Mårten's eccentric friend Harri, involving cocaine smuggling and taking the trio to Copenhagen. Bad idea.
- DirectorOddvar EinarsonStarsBettina BanounJørn ChristensenSigrid HuunPhotographer John Gabriel, in his mid-twenties, coincidentally meets 13 year old Flora, who's run off from home and has nowhere to sleep. They start a love affair due to both of their need for affection.
- DirectorLasse GlommStarsStein BjørnArja SaijonmaaBjørn SundquistFamine and poverty is their every day life in the 1860s on the farm. One day their uncle from the north and tells wonderful things about their lives up there, making young Heiki go to see the Northern lights.
- DirectorFrançoise HartmannStarsTex KonigMargo MacKinnonA film telling of a Mic Mac legend of how the mythic hero Glouscap freed his people from the grip of Winter.
- DirectorJørgen LethIn 1984 Jørgen Leth, cinematographer Dan Holmberg and sound recordist Niels Torp travelled some 6,000 kilometres by train through China. The result is a very calm, beautifully perceived travelogue borne by unprejudiced curiosity and observational ability. A riverboat in a landscape of sugar-top mountains in Southern China and the many shots from the train journey are the visual leitmotifs of the film, in which we meet an acrobat, a painter in inks, some opera students from the Beijing conservatory, and a group of female racing cyclists. The camera falls in love with exquisite tai chi movements and the dexterity of the train kitchen staff, and the soundtrack gives a vivid sense of the noisy life on board, with music blaring from scratchy loudspeakers. The fact that the film should be viewed as a collection of notes on film, i.e. a kind of travel journal, is emphasised by the title and by Leth's only words on the soundtrack: "I take notes because I want to remember what I have seen. I am smoking a Chinese cigarette and I am travelling on board a train in China". (In an English version of the film, which is nineteen minutes shorter, a further three notes appear on the soundtrack).
- DirectorJon Bang CarlsenStarsStine BierlichReine BrynolfssonFlemming JørgensenAn ambitious school teacher in a small, windswept village decides to stage "Hamlet" as an amateur comedy.
- DirectorVonnie von HelmoltAlan PakarnykStarsHarvey AtkinA phantasmagoria of colors and shapes.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsMaggie SmithHelena Bonham CarterDenholm ElliottLucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
- DirectorSandy JohnsonStarsLenny HenryJohn SheaPeter VaughanTwo guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
- DirectorStefan AnastasiuAs a man flounders just off a pier, a variety of people come to see and do nothing to help him.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsNoam AlmazDexter FletcherNigel TerryA retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsKristina NehmJustine SaundersBob MazaStory of an aboriginal family who tries to move out of the fringe into the main white community.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsTim PyeKatie PyeBen MartinA family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsKris BidenkoEmma ColesKris McQuadeThe evolving relationship of two teenage girls in Sydney backwards through time, from estrangement to the height of their friendship a year earlier.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsGabrielle ShorneggGeraldine HaywoodMarian KnightThe awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture.
- DirectorPaco LucioStarsÁlvaro de LunaJuan Diego BottoMaría Luisa San JoséDark secrets from the past will come to light during a family summer.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsLouis MalleLowell BarnumArnold BenekeOriginal footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid-eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. With weekly foreclosures on family farms and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.
- DirectorBrad CaslorStarsAl SimmonsJay BrazeauFrancine KirschA young dog struggles to learn how to find a job.
- DirectorPaula De KoenigsbergLucy WinerStarsLucy WinerUgly GeorgeJoel M. ReedA portrait of the various forms of male sexism existing in contemporary American society.
- DirectorMikhail TumanishviliStarsMikhail NozhkinAleksandr FatyushinSergey NasibovMuch of the movie's dialogue is in English with Russian dubbed over it.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSilu SeppäläSakari KuosmanenHeinäsirkkaThe all-star American boxer Rock'y defends the Free World by fighting against a gigantic opponent from Siberia named Igor. A musical parody uses the song by Sleepy Sleepers.
- DirectorWerner NekesStarsWerner NekesWhat really happened between the pictures?
- DirectorStefania SvenstedtStarsHans GrunditzGöran JohanssonJohnny AnderssonFor five years and across four continents, Stefania Lopez Svenstedt and Carl Henrik Svenstedt follow a Swedish engineering group that builds Sweden's first spacecraft: the research satellite Viking. The purpose of the satellite is to explore the Aurora Borealis, the northern lights, a magnetic storm that flares up when particles of the solar wind enter the atmosphere at the Earth's magnetic poles.
- DirectorYngve Baum
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsKjell BergqvistHanna FernholmMarc Klein EssinkA woman about to start in psychoanalysis finds out that it's a long waiting period, during which she goes to Asia. Seven months later, she's back. In an inner monologue, she describes what happened during the trip in Asia.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsLena NymanVilgot SjömanBörje AhlstedtTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsMaj HulténVilgot SjömanLena NymanTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) deals with topics such as class society, religion, sex, contraceptives, and the Swedish prison Kumla.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsLars LindLeif NymarkStig TörnblomSix youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment, named "Guesthouse Objectivity" (Pensionatet Sakligheten), where they are assigned to live together in an apartment while being supervised by two forgiving social workers.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsGunn WållgrenGunnar BjörnstrandTina HedströmEdit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsSolveig TernströmBörje AhlstedtMargaretha ByströmThis Swedish sex-comedy/drama explores the complications in the relationship of a couple who believe that if they make love to each other, they will die. They neck and are physically affectionate in public as well as in private, but have a big taboo against sexual consummation. Their situation drives them to distraction, and they unsuccessfully seek various extramarital outlets for their frustrations.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsGunnar HellströmBibi AnderssonLarry HagmanA film director travels to the Philippines to find the perfect environment for his new production. He is inspired by Coppolas "Apocalypse Now". At the same time, casting is done elsewhere in the world.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsBibi AnderssonMax von SydowPer MyrbergIf someone just then had told her that she in a few months would be the mistress of her boss, she would have become aggrieved and indignant. Women who tangled with married men were not acceptable to her.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsAnita EkströmGösta BredefeldtIngrid ThulinSet in 1909: A working-class girl is refused marriage by her politically committed boyfriend. As a result she becomes a maid in a rich household and the mistress of the master.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsBernt LundquistSolveig TernströmTomas BolmeA bachelor truck driver meet a pregnant woman. She moves in with him. Days turn into weeks and the bachelor considers becoming the stepfather to the child.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsAgneta EkmannerFrej LindqvistPer MyrbergPsychological thriller where a religion teacher's wife is having an affair with the school principal. Guilt feelings in the situation leads to both attempted suicide and murder.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsBörje AhlstedtStig EngströmSif RuudAbout an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsHarald HamrellViveca LindforsErnst GüntherSet in the 1930s about 16-year-old Linus working at a used bookstore, who dreams of becoming a poet. One day he accompanies his father to a brick house. Linus is immediately intrigued by the building. The house hides dark secrets.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsBibi AnderssonPer OscarssonJarl KulleJacob returns home to Sweden after four years in Paris. Charlotte, his sister, plans to marry Baron Alsmeden, which arouses Jacob's jealousy. He flirts with Ebba to take revenge on his sister. Old suppressed feelings awaken between them.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsKjell BergqvistLickå SjömanHalvar BjörkInvestigates and sheds light on various sexual identities and sexual peculiarities outside the accepted sexual norms.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsVilgot SjömanWiktor SjömanVilgot Sjöman takes his old father Wiktor on a drive to his childhood environment.
- DirectorHans AbramsonHans AlfredsonArne ArnbomStarsHans AbramsonHans AlfredsonHarriet AnderssonA Swedish film in eight episodes by directors Ingmar Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman, Lars Görling, Hans Alfredson, Tage Danielsson, Hans Abramson, Jörn Donner, Arne Arnbom, Gustaf Molander.
- DirectorHåkan AlexanderssonStarsFatima BifeldtChristine FlodererPeter KneipThe bohemian filmmaker and composer Manfred plagued by an event in the past. At the age of sixteen, his father died. When Manfred was coming from Karlsruhe with his father's grave urn, to spread ashes over the ocean, the tram collided.
- DirectorHåkan AlexanderssonStarsMats G. Bengtsson
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsAlex van WarmerdamHenri GarcinOlga ZuiderhoekA well-to-do, shut-in thirty-something faces city life, family secrets and his own quirks when he is finally thrown out by his parents.
- DirectorScott D. GoldsteinStarsPhilip BoscoGeraldine PageLinda ThorsonAging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
- DirectorLejf Marcussen
- DirectorFredi M. MurerStarsThomas NockJohanna LierDorothea MoritzIsolated in the Swiss Alps, a young woman who would have liked to become a teacher teaches her deaf brother arithmetic and writing. An incestuous relationship develops between them.
- DirectorNiki ListHans SelikovskyStarsAndreas VitásekBarbara RudnikChristian SchmidtPrivate detective Max Müller and his assistent Larry try to solve a crime but find themselves in strange bars and women.
- DirectorMichel MurrayStarsDenise AllyDaniel BerardMario Boucher-A mother chooses her dream of the day from the shelves of magazines: she will therefore be "Sylvia, the-beautiful-heroine-courted-by-two-men".
- DirectorSara DriverStarsSuzanne FletcherAnn MagnusonDexter LeeA woman is hired to transcribe an ancient Chinese manuscript. She finds that little by little, the manuscript has powers that begin to take over her life.
- DirectorKristian Petri
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsTsutomu YamazakiMayumi OgawaYoshio HaradaA surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
- DirectorJane CampionGerard LeeStarsDavid BentonAnne BerrimanAlan BrownA collection of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments, each with an uneasy familiarity.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsRentarô MikuniChôichirô KawarasakiOrie SatôAn old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsChia-bao ChangNeng ChangChih-Chen ChenThe semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.
- DirectorNuanxing ZhangStarsFengxu LiYuanzheng FengTao SongA young girl from the city is sent out to work in a village of Dai people in China's cultural revolution. Here she learns to enjoy being young and gains a new outlook on life.
- DirectorLui FariasStarsFernanda TorresMarieta SeveroCarlos Augusto StrazzerBased on a famous autobiography, this film tells of teenage angst, as lived in the miserable lower middle class Rio bedroom suburbs, by 15 year-old Eliane. To boot, she comes from a dysfunctional family. Her mother is particularly neurotic and bitter, at odds with virtually everything her daughter does. The film strives to be a realistic and sensitive portrayal of human relationships in one of Brazil's poorest urban landscapes.
- DirectorEmil Stang LundStarsLiv HeløeArild KristoA frozen country road. A young woman picks up male hikers in her car, but will not let them utter a word of communication.
- DirectorChristian BlackwoodStarsZarah LeanderPaul SeilerArmandDocumentary which interweaves the life of the actress-singer Zarah Leander, with that of her greatest fan, Paul Seiler, who has devoted his life to her.