1954 Cannes Film Festival

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1954 Cannes Film Festival
CFF54poster.jpg
Official poster of the 7th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Piva. [1]
Opening film Le Grand Jeu
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Grand Prix:
Gate of Hell [2]
No. of films43 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date25 March 1954 (1954-03-25) – 9 April 1954 (1954-04-09)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 7th Cannes Film Festival took place from 25 March to 9 April 1954. French writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau served as jury president for the main competition. This was the last festival with a predominantly French jury.

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The Grand Prix was awarded, as the highest prize of the Festival, to Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa. [4]

As the festival was becoming more and more a pole of showbiz attraction, scandals and romances of stars were appearing in the press. In 1954, the Simone Silva affair during the Cannes Festival ended up in the destruction of her career as an actress and her premature death, three years later. [5]

The festival opened with Flesh and the Woman by Robert Siodmak. [6]

Juries

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Official Sections

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix: [3]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Adventures of the Barber of Seville Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla Ladislao Vajda France, Spain
All Is Possible in Granada Todo es posible en Granada Carlos Blanco and José Luis Sáenz de Heredia Spain
As Long as You're Near Me Solange Du da bist Harald Braun West Germany
Before the Deluge Avant le déluge André Cayatte France, Italy
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef Robert D. Webb United States
The Blazing Sun صراع في الوادي Youssef Chahine Egypt
The Boy and the Fog El Niño y la niebla Roberto Gavaldón Mexico
Bread of Love Kärlekens bröd Arne Mattsson Sweden
Chronicle of Poor Lovers Cronache di poveri amanti Carlo Lizzani Italy
Circus Fandango Cirkus Fandango Arne Skouen Norway
Comedians Cómicos Juan Antonio Bardem Spain
Five Boys from Barska Street Piatka z ulicy Barskiej Aleksander Ford Poland
Flesh and the Woman Le Grand Jeu Robert Siodmak France, Italy
From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann United States
Gate of Hell 地獄門 Teinosuke Kinugasa Japan
The Great Adventure Det Stora Ädventyret Arne Sucksdorff Sweden
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg Великий воин Албании Скандербег Sergei Yutkevich Soviet Union, Albania
An Inlet of Muddy Water にごりえ Tadashi Imai Japan
The Kidnappers Philip Leacock United Kingdom
Kiskrajcár Márton Keleti Hungary
Knave of Hearts Monsieur Ripois René Clément France, United Kingdom
Knights of the Round Table Richard Thorpe United Kingdom
Komedianti Vladimír VlcekCzechoslovakia
The Last Bridge Die Letzte Brücke Helmut Käutner Austria, Yugoslavia
Little Boy Lost George Seaton United States
The Living Desert James Algar
Love in a Hot Climate Sang et lumières Georges Rouquier and Ricardo Muñoz Suay France, Spain
Love Letter 恋文 Kinuyo Tanaka Japan
Maddalena Augusto Genina France, Italy
Man of Africa Cyril Frankel United Kingdom
Marina's Destiny Судьба МариныIsaak Shmaruk and Viktor Ivchenko Soviet Union
The Martyr of Calvary El Mártir del Calvario Miguel Morayta Mexico
Mayurpankh Kishore Sahu India
Memories of a Mexican Memorias de un Mexicano Carmen Toscano Mexico
The Monster الوحش Salah Abu Seif Egypt
Naked Amazon Feitiço do AmazonasZygmunt SulistrowskiBrazil
Neapolitan Carousel Carosello napoletano Ettore Giannini Italy
Pamposh Ezra Mir India
Si mis campos hablaran José Bohr Chile
Song of the Sea O Canto do Mar Alberto Cavalcanti Brazil
Stars of the Russian Ballet Мастера русского балета Herbert Rappaport Soviet Union
Two Acres of Land Do Bigha Zamin Bimal Roy India
Windfall in Athens Κυριακάτικο Ξύπνημα Michael Cacoyannis Greece

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [3]

  • Apollon kai Dafni by Thanassis Meritzis
  • Aptenodytes forsteri (Les Pingouins) by Mario Marret
  • Aquarium by Ágoston Kollányi
  • The Blakes Slept Here by Jacques Bernard Brunius
  • Christophe Plantin, imprimeur des humanistes du XVIeme siècle by Gaston Vermaillen
  • Der dom zu Koeln by Ulrich Kayser
  • El Greco en su obra maestra : El entierro del Conde Orgaz by Juan Serra
  • Er is altijd een tockomst by Kees Stip
  • Exploratieboren by Bert Haanstra
  • Feminine Fashions by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
  • Il fiume della vita by Enrico Castelli Gattinara
  • Folk Dances of India by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
  • Det gjelder livet by Titus Vibe Müller
  • Una goccia d'acqua by Enzo Trovasilli
  • Highlands of Iceland by Magnus Johannsson
  • Hokusai by Hiroshi Teshigahara
  • Jaktflygare by Helge Sahlin
  • Jyske kyst by Søren Melson
  • Kék vércsék erdejében by István Homoki-Nagy
  • Koziołeczek by Lechosław Marszałek
  • Kutna hora by Fr. Lukas
  • Land of Enlightment by Mohan Wadhwani
  • Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne by Johan Jacobsen
  • Lumière by P. Paviot
  • Miniatury kodesku behema by Stanisław Lenartowicz
  • Le mystère de la Licorne by Arcady, Jean-Claude See
  • Nouveaux horizons by Marcel Ichac
  • Nytt land under svillene by Per Opsahl
  • O kohoutkovi a slepičce by Zdenec Miler
  • A Drop Too Much (O sklenicku víc) by Bretislav Pojar
  • L'Ombre de St Michel by Jean Pichonnier, Paul Pichonnier
  • De Opsporing van Aardolie by Bert Haanstra
  • The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Brian Borthwick, John Halas
  • Pik droujby by I. Goutman
  • Plastik im Freien by Adalbert Baltes
  • The Pleasure Garden by James Broughton
  • Polyot na lunu by Vladimir Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg
  • Promenade au Luxembourg by Philippe Schneider
  • Rene Leriche chirurgien de la douleur by René Lucot
  • River of Hope by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
  • Ruban noir by Henry Jacques
  • El solitario de Sayan by Enrico Gras
  • Stare miasto (The Old Town of Warsaw) by Jerzy Bossak
  • Stern von Bethlehem by Wilhelm Döderlein
  • Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom by Ward Kimball, Charles A. Nichols
  • Uspavana ljepotica by Rudolf Sremec
  • La vie des Chamois by André Bureau, Paul Claudon, P. Dalli, Pierre Levent, André Villard
  • Vieren maar by Herman van der Horst
  • Viragos kalocsa by Vince Lakatos
  • Vita della libellula by Alberto Ancillotto
  • Wild Life Sanctuary by D.D. Reucassel

Official Awards

Jean Cocteau, Jury President Jean Cocteau b Meurisse 1923.jpg
Jean Cocteau, Jury President
Teinosuke Kinugasa, Grand Prix winner Teinosuke Kinugasa.jpg
Teinosuke Kinugasa, Grand Prix winner

Main Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

OCIC Award

References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1954". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Awards 1954: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Official Selection 1954: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "7ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "1952-1959: Celebrities, politics and the film world". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "1954 - Le Grand Jeu". "cannes-fest.com" (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Juries 1954 : All the Juries". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "1954 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1954". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1954". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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