Less stars, more controversy: Opening night at the Venice Film Festival

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All the latest developments from the opening ceremony and world premiere of 'Comandante' at the 80th edition of the Venice International Film Festival

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00:00 Venice rolls out the red carpet and fills with glamour at the opening of its famous

00:05 film festival. An edition with more Italian and European flavour than ever. And it's for

00:11 a matter of principle. Hollywood actors have been on strike since mid-July. The president

00:17 of the jury, American director Damien Chazelle, has expressed his support for the walkout

00:21 and for cinema as art, not as content to feed the channel. David Morricone does more from

00:27 the Serenissima. The 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off with the Italian

00:32 World War II film Comandante, which replaced Luca Guadagnino's Challengers due to the ongoing

00:38 writers and actors' strikes in the US. It's a strong sub, as the film finds humanity in

00:43 the darkest of places, as World War II submariners disobey their orders and save some of their

00:49 enemies. But the main talking point on the Lido at the moment is still the inclusion

00:55 in the line-up of three controversial directors, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and Luc Besson.

01:01 It remains to be seen how these films are received, but they will premiere in the coming

01:05 days. From Venice, David Morricone, Euronews.

01:09 (whooshing)

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