1957 Cannes Film Festival

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 (1957-05-02) – 17 May 1957 (1957-05-17)
Website| festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

1958

1956

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 President
* Maurice Genevoix (France)
* Georges Huisman (France) (historian)
* Maurice Lehmann (France)
* Marcel Pagnol (France)
* Michael Powell (UK)
* Jules Romains (France)
* Dolores del Río (Mexico)
* George Stevens (USA)
* Vladimír Vlček (Czechoslovakia)

Short films

* Claude Aveline (France)
* Roman Karmen (Soviet Union)
* Albert Lamorisse (France)
* Alberto Lattuada (Italy)
* Jean Vivie (France) (CST official)

## 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]

* Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Anderson

## 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]

André Maurois, Jury President William Wyler, Palme d'Or winner

### 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:
* Kanał by Andrzej Wajda
* The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman
* 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:
* Shiroi sanmyaku by Sadao Imamura
* Qivitoq by Erik Balling

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]

OCIC Award[10]

* Special Mention:
* He Who Must Die by Jules Dassin
* Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Posters 1957". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
2. ^ a b "Awards 1957: All Awards". cinema-francais.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
3. ^ a b c d "Official Selection 1957: All the Selection". cinema-francais.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
4. ^ "1957 - La Loi de Cannes (The Law of Cannes)". cannes-fest.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
5. ^ a b "10ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
6. ^ "Retro Cannes". mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
7. ^ "Honoring the Female Trailblazers of Cannes /2. Dolores del Río". harpersbazaar.com. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
8. ^ "Le Jury, Les Prix 1957". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
9. ^ 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.
10. ^ "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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