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Films with a high moral tone were in favour at the Venice Film Festival this year – reviews of the papal biopic From a Far Country by Krzysztof Zanussi, Prince of the City by Sidney Lumet and True Confessions by Ulu Grosbard, The Leaden Years by Margarethe von Trotta which won the Golden Lion award. British Sculpture in the 20th Century – Part 1, 1901-1950 – at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. The Russian exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn's play The Love-Girl and the Innocent receives its British premier, directed by Clifford Williams. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkein, creator of The Lord of the Rings, compiled by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien.
Presenter: Jim Hiley.