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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0719.00020.] We give a general compactness result in the space \(\Gamma_ 0=\{\)proper, \(\Gamma\)-closed, convex-concave functions \(f: R^ n\times R^ m\to [- \infty,+\infty]\}\). This is very important in order to detect sequences of saddle point problems which admit a nonpathological ``limit''. Such an approach is suitable with saddle point problems with or without constraints, while other previous considerations deal only with unconstrained problems [see for instance \textit{H. Attouch} and \textit{R. J.- B. Wets}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 280, 1-41 (1983; Zbl 0525.49009)]. The main result of the present paper is Theorem 3.2, which shows necessary and sufficient boundedness conditions in order that a nonempty family \(\Phi\subset \Gamma_ 0\) is relatively sequentially compact. Applications to duality formulas are given by the same authors in the forthcoming paper ``A duality theorem for bivariated functions by means of Yosida approximates'' [Atti Semin. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena (to appear)].