1955 Cannes Film Festival

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1955 Cannes Film Festival
CFF55poster.jpg
Official poster of the 8th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Marcel Huet [1]
Opening film Rififi
Closing film Carmen Jones
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palm d'Or :
Marty [2]
No. of films33 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date26 April 1955 (1955-04-26) – 10 May 1955 (1955-05-10)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 8th Cannes Film Festival took place from 26 April to 10 May 1955. [4] French writer and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol served as jury president for the main competition.

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The first Palme d'Or was awarded, as the highest prize of the Festival, to Marty by Delbert Mann. [5]

Until the 1954 Festival, the whimsical way various prizes were being awarded had drawn much criticism. In answer to this, from 1955 onwards, the Jury was composed of foreign celebrities from the film industry. [6]

The festival opened with Rififi by Jules Dassin, [7] and closed with Carmen Jones by Otto Preminger.

Juries

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Official Selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or : [3]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Bad Day at Black Rock John Sturges United States
Biraj Bahu Bimal Roy India
A Big Family Больша́я семья́ Iosif Kheifits Soviet Union
Black Dossier Le Dossier noir André Cayatte France, Italy
Boot Polish Prakash AroraIndia
Carmen Jones (closing film) Otto Preminger United States
The Crucified Lovers 近松物語 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
The Country Girl George Seaton United States
Dog's Heads Psohlavci Martin Frič Czechoslovakia
East of Eden Elia Kazan United States
The End of the Affair Edward Dmytryk United Kingdom, United States
Fire in the Night Det brenner i natt! Arne Skouen Norway
The Gold of Naples L'oro di Napoli Vittorio De Sica Italy
Heroes of Shipka Герои Шипки Sergei Vasilyev Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Hill 24 Doesn't Answer גבעה 24 אינה עונה Thorold Dickinson Israel
Jedda Charles Chauvel Australia
A Kid for Two Farthings Carol Reed United Kingdom
Life or Death حياة أو موت Kamal El Sheikh Egypt
A Stranger on the Stairs Un extraño en la escalera Tulio Demicheli Mexico
Liliomfi Károly Makk Hungary
Lost Continent Continente perduto Leonardo Bonzi, Mario Craveri, Enrico Gras,
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino and Giorgio Moser 		Italy
Ludwig II Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs Helmut Käutner West Germany
Marty Delbert Mann United States
Miracle of Marcelino Marcelino pan y vino Ladislao Vajda Spain
The Mosquito Die Mücke Walter Reisch West Germany
Onna no Koyomi 女の暦 Seiji Hisamatsu Japan
Rififi (opening film)Du rififi chez les hommes Jules Dassin France
Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта Lev Arnshtam and Leonid Lavrovsky Soviet Union
Roots Raíces Benito Alazraki Mexico
Samba FantásticoJean Manzon and René PersinBrazil, France
The Princess Sen 千姫Keigo KimuraJapan
The Sign of Venus Il segno di Venere Dino Risi Italy
Stella Στέλλα Michael Cacoyannis Greece

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [3]

Short Films Competition

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

  • 2'21"6 Butterfly Stroke: Dolphin-Kick by T. Mijata
  • A esperanca e' eterna by Marcos Margulies
  • Aggtelek by Ágoston Kollányi
  • Arte popular Portuguesa by João Mendes
  • Black on White by John Read
  • Blinkity Blank by Norman McLaren
  • Bow Bells by Anthony Simmons
  • Bronsalder by Lars Krantz
  • Bush Doctor by Jean Palardy
  • Cyrk by Włodzimierz Haupe
  • De sable et de feu by Jean Jabely
  • Den standhaftige Tinnsoldat by Ivo Caprino
  • Der Schatz des Abendlandes by Ernst Stephan Niessner, Edmund Von Hammer
  • Dobreho vojak svejk by Jiri Trnka
  • Dock by Emile Degelin
  • Guardians of the Soil by David Millin
  • Host by Thor Arnijot Udvang, Carsten Munch
  • Images préhistoriques by Arcady & Thomas L. Rowe
  • In cantec si dans by Ion Bostan
  • Isole di fuoco by Vittorio De Seta
  • Jakten over sporene by Erik Borge
  • L'homme dans la lumière by René Lucot
  • La ciudad blanca by Waldo Cerruto
  • La grande pèche by Henri Fabiani
  • Le conte de ma vie by Jørgen Roos
  • Les jardiniers d'Allah by Michel Clarence
  • Niedzielny poranek by Andrzej Munk
  • Nos forets by Auguste Kern
  • Op de spitsen by Rudi Hornecker
  • Opici cisar by Jan Lacko
  • Island of Sakhalin (Ostrov Sakhalin) by Vassili Katanian, Eldar Ryazanov
  • Pierre Romain desfossez by Gérard De Boe
  • Pulsschlag der Zeit by René Boeniger
  • Symphony of Life by T.A. Abraham
  • The Golden River by Pittamandalam Venktatachalapathy Pathy
  • The Story of Light by Joop Geesink
  • Tickets Please by Emil Nofal
  • Trois coquillages de Tunisie by Roger Mauge
  • When Magoo Flew by Pete Burness
  • Zolotaya antilopa by Lev Atamanov
Marcel Pagnol, Jury President Marcel Pagnol 1931.jpg
Marcel Pagnol, Jury President

Official Awards

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

OCIC Award

References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1955". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Awards 1955: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Official Selection 1955: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "1955 - L'Or de Cannes (The Gold of Cannes)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "8ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "The History of the Festival / The 1950s". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Opening of the 1955 Festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Juries 1955: All the Juries". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1955". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1955". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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