1957 Cannes Film Festival
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 Official poster of the 10th Cannes Film Festival[1] | |
| Opening film | Around the World in 80 Days |
|---|---|
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or (Friendly Persuasion)[2] |
| No. of films | 31 (In Competition)[3] 1 (Out of Competition) 29 (Short Film) |
| Festival date | 2 May 1957 – 17 May 1957 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 10th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 17 May 1957.[4]
Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini, La casa del ángel by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, A Man Escaped by Robert Bresson, and The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman were entered for the Palme d'Or. They lost to Friendly Persuasion by William Wyler.[5] The festival opened with Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Anderson.[6] During the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, Dolores del Río was the first female member of the jury for the official selection.[7]
Jury
[edit]The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1957 competition:[8]
Feature films
- André Maurois (France) - Jury President
- Jean Cocteau (France) - Honorary Jury President
- Dolores del Río (Mexico)
- Maurice Genevoix (France)
- Georges Huisman (France) (historian)
- Maurice Lehmann (France)
- Marcel Pagnol (France)
- Michael Powell (UK)
- Jules Romains (France)
- George Stevens (USA)
- Vladimír Vlček (Czechoslovakia)
Short films
- Claude Aveline (France)
- Roman Karmen (Soviet Union)
- Albert Lamorisse (France)
- Alberto Lattuada (Italy)
- Jean Vivie (CST official) (France)
Feature film competition
[edit]The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
- The Bachelor Party by Delbert Mann
- Duped Till Doomsday (Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag) by Kurt Jung-Alsen
- He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir) by Jules Dassin
- The House of the Angel (La Casa del ángel) by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
- Don Quixote (Don Kikhot) by Grigori Kozintsev
- Earth (Zemya) by Zahari Zhandov
- Faustina by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
- The Forty-First (Sorok pervyy) by Grigori Chukhrai
- Friendly Persuasion by William Wyler
- Funny Face by Stanley Donen
- Gotoma the Buddha by Rajbans Khanna
- Guendalina by Alberto Lattuada
- The Harvest Month (Elokuu) by Matti Kassila
- High Tide at Noon by Philip Leacock
- Kanał by Andrzej Wajda
- Lapland Calendar (Same Jakki) by Per Høst
- Lost Children (Ztracenci) by Miloš Makovec
- A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut) by Robert Bresson
- The Mill of Good Luck (La 'Moara cu noroc') by Victor Iliu
- Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) by Federico Fellini
- The Rice People (Kome) by Tadashi Imai
- Qivitoq by Erik Balling
- Rekava by Lester James Peries
- Rose Bernd by Wolfgang Staudte
- The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) by Ingmar Bergman
- Shiroi sanmyaku by Sadao Imamura
- Sissi - The Young Empress (Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin) by Ernst Marischka
- Two Confessions (Két vallomás) by Márton Keleti
- Valley of Peace (Dolina miru) by France Štiglic
- Whither? (Ila Ayn) by Georges Nasser
- Yangtse Incident by Michael Anderson
Out of competition
[edit]The following film was selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
Short film competition
[edit]The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
- Altitude 7.546 by I. Grek
- Bolcsok by Ágoston Kollányi
- Carnival in Quebec by Jean Palardy
- City of Gold by Colin Low, Wolf Koenig
- Diario Uruguayo by Eugenio Hintz
- Die Große Wanderung by Walter Suchner
- Een leger van gehouwen steen by Theo Van Haren Noman
- Gast auf Erden by Karl Stanzl
- History of the Cinema by John Halas
- Il sogno dei gonzaga by Antonio Petrucci
- Jabulani Africa by Jok Uys, Jamie Uys
- Śląsk by Witold Lesiewicz
- La mariee portait des perles by Kurt Baum, Errol Hinds
- Let nad mocvarom (Flight Above the Marshes) by Aleksandar Petrović
- Magic of the Mountains by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
- Michel de ghelderode by Luc De Heusch
- Nessebar by Stephane Topaldjikov
- Niok l'éléphant by Edmond Sechan
- Ochotniki iujnikh morey (Les chasseurs des mers du sud) by S. Kogan
- Paraplícko by Bretislav Pojar
- Rembrandt, schilder van de mens by Bert Haanstra
- San Antonio de la Florida by Santos Núñez
- A Brief History (Scurtă Istorie) by Ion Popescu-Gopo
- Soseiji Gakkyu by Susumu Hani
- Splintret emalje by Johan Jacobsen
- Toute la mémoire du monde by Alain Resnais
- Vacances Tunisiennes by René Vautier
- Western Symphonie by Thomas L. Rowe
- Wiesensommer (Prairie d'été) by Heinz Sielmann
Awards
[edit]
Official awards
[edit]The following films and people received the 1957 awards:[2][5]
- Palme d'Or: Friendly Persuasion by William Wyler
- Jury Special Prize:
- Best Director: Robert Bresson for A Man Escaped
- Best Actress: Giulietta Masina for Nights of Cabiria
- Special Mention: Elsa Daniel for La casa del ángel[9]
- Best Actor: John Kitzmiller for Valley of Peace (Dolina miru)
- Special Mentions: Gotoma the Buddha by Rajbans Khanna
- Special Award: The Forty-first by Grigori Chukhrai
- Best Romantic Documentary:
Short films
- Short Film Palme d'Or: A Brief History (Scurtă Istorie) by Ion Popescu-Gopo
- Special mention: Ochotniki iujnikh morey (Les chasseurs des mers du sud) by S. Kogan
- Documentary Prize: City of Gold by Colin Low, Wolf Koenig
- Prize for Film in Nature: Wiesensommer (Prairie d'été) by Heinz Sielmann
Independent awards
[edit]- Special Mention:
References
[edit]- ^ "Posters 1957". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ a b "Awards 1957: All Awards". cinema-francais.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Official Selection 1957: All the Selection". cinema-francais.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ "1957 - La Loi de Cannes (The Law of Cannes)". cannes-fest.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ a b "10ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Retro Cannes". mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Honoring the Female Trailblazers of Cannes /2. Dolores del Río". harpersbazaar.com. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ "Le Jury, Les Prix 1957". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ Barnard, Timothy; Rist, Peter, eds. (1996). South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994. Taylor & Francis. pp. 27–29. ISBN 978-082-404-574-6. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1957". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
External links
[edit]- 1957 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1957 Archived 2019-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1957 at Internet Movie Database
Media
[edit]- British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1957 footage
- British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1957 opens
- British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1957 ends
- INA: Opening of the 1957 festival (commentary in French)
- INA: Jury at the 1957 Cannes festival (commentary in French)
- INA: Closure of the 1957 Festival (commentary in French)
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