It was first held in 1932 as the “International Film Exhibition” with the horror film “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde will be one of the first shows. The first event did not include an awards ceremony, so the winners were determined by public voting.

Then Venice International Film Festival was included as a whole in the largest exhibition of contemporary art, the Venice Biennale, and since then the people of cinema gather every year at the beginning of September for the greatest celebration of the seventh art.

The festival is not only the most historical in the world, but also the most glamorous (along with the Cannes Film Festival). All the lights in history Palazzo del Cinema on the island of Lido Venice where screenings are held for 10 days in the presence of the actors and authors of each film.

Stories from the festival that awards every year Golden Lion a film that stands out in the competition section and serves as a precursor to the Oscars a few months later, there are many.

Shortly before the 79th issue and the opening of the film “White noise» by Noah Baubach, we look back at the personalities who shone on the red carpet and in the hall of the Palazzo del Cinema: by Paul Newman and Sophia Loren, Maria Callas and Gina Lolombrigite.