Wind blowing from the East.
Many works presented at the first editions of the Festival are from Eastern Europe, mainly from the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.
Who wants to kill Jessie? (Czechoslovakia) by Vaclav Vorlicek is awarded the Asteroide d’oro in the 1966 edition. It is a breezy satire of the comics heroes, mainly of Superman.
A Tribute to Gustave Moreau takes place in Palazzo Costanzi.
The Festival hosts around eighty guests including critics, journalists, filmmakers, writers and scientists. Arthur C. Clarke, author of the subject of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Stanley Kubrick’s film, takes part in the event too.
