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GV ST. Marco square, Gondole in "Canal Grande"



GV exteriors of the film festival build people out the building



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shot of various actors and stars sitting near the "festival"


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press waiting the opening of the festival.


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festival build closed.


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police arriving at festival building.


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film-directors and students arriving at the "festival" (200 people)


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ditto of the manifestors out the festival build"


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ditto




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Background: Tonights opening (25th) of the Venice film festival was postponed at the last moment until tuesday in the face of a planned take-over by left-wing film directors and students.

The mayor of Venice, Giovanni Favetto-Fisca, announced the postponement after the festival director Professor Liugi Chiarini put the festival in his hands.

In a dramatic announcement tonight (25th) Ghiarini disclosed that two of the directors leaders approached him late last night and threatened that if he did not submit to their take-over they would "Create situations in which someone might even get killed.

In a letter to the mayor Prof Chiarini - who has previously insisted at holding the festival at all costs- "said he did not want to take the responsibility for "tragic circumstances arising from a tragic farce. Before handing over the responsibility prof. Chiarini gave orders that gave orders that festival was to be postponed_but he did not specify till when. The moves follow day-long rows in the festival headquarters on the Venice Lido between the representatives of the directors and students, Venice..