History

From 2^nd to 11^th Sep­tem­ber 1979.
The Roll of hon­our of those receiv­ing trib­ute at this Fes­ti­val was high­ly pres­ti­gious: William Wyler, Burt Lan­cast­er, Stan­ley Donan and Stan­ley Kramer. A sym­po­sium on the eco­nom­ics of Amer­i­can Cin­e­ma was orga­nized by the Fes­ti­val, in the pres­ence of Jack Valen­ti, Chair­man of the MPAA (Motion Pic­ture Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­ca, the pow­er­ful Amer­i­can cin­e­mato­graph­ic indus­try syn­di­cate) and faith­ful friend to both the Fes­ti­val and Deauville.