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)