Location | Venice, Italy |
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Founded | 1932 |
Festival date | 28 August – 9 September 1956 |
Website | Website |
The 17th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 9 September 1956. [1]
No Golden Lion was awarded, the international jury was unable to decide the winner, after a tie in the voting between The Burmese Harp and Calle Mayor , the award was declared void for the first (and only) time ever. [2] [3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Attack | Robert Aldrich | United States | |
The Awakening | Suor Letizia | Mario Camerini | Italy |
Big and Small | Veliki i mali | Vladimir Pogačić | Yugoslavia |
Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | United States | |
The Burmese Harp | ビルマの竪琴 | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
Bus Stop | Joshua Logan | United States | |
The Captain from Köpenick | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | Helmut Käutner | West Germany |
Empire in the Sun | L'impero del sole | Enrico Gras | Italy |
Gervaise | René Clément | France | |
The Immortal Garrison | Бессмертный гарнизон | Zakhar Agranenko, Eduard Tisse | Soviet Union |
Main Street | Calle Mayor | Juan Antonio Bardem | Spain |
The Ogre of Athens | Ο Δράκος | Nikos Koundouros | Greece |
The Rocket from Calabuch | Calabuch | Luis García Berlanga | Spain |
Street of Shame | 赤線地帯 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
Torero! | Carlos Velo | Mexico | |
La Traversée de Paris | Claude Autant-Lara | France |
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The report began with a few sentences of praise for each of the 14 films[ sic ], and then selected the Japanese Harp of Burma and the Spanish Calle Mayor as being particularly outstanding. Since the jury was unable to decide which of these two films was the superior, it had decided not to award a grand prix "St. Mark Golden Lion" this year.[ permanent dead link ]