1956 Cannes Film Festival

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1956 Cannes Film Festival
CFF56poster.jpg
Official poster of the 9th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Marcel Huet. [1]
Opening film Marie Antoinette Queen of France
Closing film The Roof
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palme d'Or :
The Silent World [2]
No. of films39 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date23 April 1956 (1956-04-23) – 10 May 1956 (1956-05-10)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 9th Cannes Film Festival took place from 23 April to 10 May 1956. [4] French actor, director and producer Maurice Lehmann served as jury president for the main competition.

Contents

The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was awarded to The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle. [5] As of 2025, the film is the only documentary to ever win it.

In an effort to resolve some issues caused by the Cold War climate of the time, like special treatment towards Americans (who gave financial assistance to the festival) which displeased the Eastern Bloc, a rule to have films withdrawn under certain conditions was in effect until 1955, even though it had became a divisive issue within the festival directors, as it was seen as censorship. In 1956, it was officially decided to eliminate all such censorship from the selection. [6]

The festival opened with Marie Antoinette Queen of France by Jean Delannoy and closed with The Roof by Vittorio De Sica. [7] [8]

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
Afternoon of the Bulls Tarde de toros Ladislao Vajda Spain
Christ in Bronze 青銅の基督 Minoru Shibuya Japan
Dalibor Václav Krška Czechoslovakia
Drumsticks Shevagyachya Shenga Shantaram Athavale India
A Girl in Black Το Κορίτσι με τα Μαύρα Michael Cacoyannis Greece
Hanka Slavko Vorkapich Yugoslavia
The Harder They Fall Mark Robson United States
The Hidden One La escondida Roberto Gavaldón Mexico
I Live in Fear 生きものの記録 Akira Kurosawa Japan
I'll Cry Tomorrow Daniel Mann United States
Item One Точка първаBoyan DanovskiBulgaria
The Leech Shabab emraa Salah Abu Seif Egypt
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Nunnally Johnson United States
Marie Antoinette Queen of France Marie-Antoinette reine de France Jean Delannoy France, Italy
Merry-Go-Round Körhinta Zoltán Fábri Hungary
Mother Мать Mark Donskoy Soviet Union
Mozart Karl Hartl Austria
The Mystery of Picasso Le mystère Picasso Henri-Georges Clouzot France
Othello Отелло Sergei Yutkevich Soviet Union
Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray India
The Phantom Horse 幻の馬 Koji Shima Japan
The Protar Affair Afacerea ProtarHaralambie BorosRomania
The Railroad Man Il ferroviere Pietro Germi Italy
Road to Life Педагогическая поэмаAleksei Maslyukov and Mechislava MayevskayaSoviet Union
The Roof Il tetto Vittorio De Sica Italy
Seagulls Die in the Harbour Meeuwen sterven in de haven Roland Verhavert, Ivo Michiels and Rik Kuypers Belgium
Seven Years in Tibet Hans NieterUnited Kingdom
Shadow Cień Jerzy Kawalerowicz Poland
The Silent World Le Monde du silence Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle France
Smiles of a Summer Night Sommarnattens leende Ingmar Bergman Sweden
Sob o Céu da Bahia Ernesto RemaniBrazil
Talpa Alfredo B. Crevenna Mexico
El Último perro Lucas Demare Argentina
The Unwilling DoctorToubib el affiaHenry JacquesMorocco
Walk Into Paradise Lee Robinson Australia, France
Wild Love Gli innamorati Mauro Bolognini Italy
Yield to the Night J. Lee Thompson United Kingdom

Short Films Competition

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

  • Aéroport de Luxembourg by Philippe Schneider
  • Andre Modeste Gretry by Lucien Deroisy
  • Le ballon rouge by Albert Lamorisse
  • Bwana Kitoko by André Cauvin
  • Ciganytanc by Tamas Banovich
  • Columbia Musical Travelark: Wonders of Manhattan by Harry Foster
  • La corsa delle rocche by Gian Luigi Polidoro
  • Crne vode by Rudolf Sremec
  • En de zee was niet meer by Bert Haanstra
  • The Face of Lincoln by Edward Freed
  • Festival Melody (Melodii festivalia) by Jerzy Bossak, R. Grigoriev, Ilya Kopalin, Iosif Poselski
  • Fuji wa ikiteiru by Kenji Shimomura
  • Gateway To the Antarctic by Duncan Carse
  • Gerald McBoing on Planet Moo or Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo by Robert Cannon
  • Growing Coconuts by Fali Bilimoria
  • Horizons nouveaux by Kurt Baum
  • Karius and Bactus (Karius og Baktus) by Ivo Caprino
  • Kati és a vadmacska by Ágoston Kollányi
  • Katsura rikyu by Minoru Kuribayashi
  • Loutky Jiriho Trnky by Bruno Sefranek
  • Magdana's Donkey (Lurdzha Magdany) by Tengiz Abuladze and Rezo Chkheidze
  • Marinica by Ion Popescu-Gopo
  • Nicolae Grigorescu by Ion Bostan
  • Parabola d'oro by Vittorio De Seta
  • Les pécheurs du cap by Errol Hinds
  • Portrait of Soutland by Peter Roger Hunt
  • Povest za tirnovgrad by Yuri Arnaudov
  • Salut à la France by Ric Eyrich, Thomas L. Rowe
  • Salzburger Impressionen by Prof. Hanns Wagula
  • The Shepherd by Julian Biggs
  • Stvoreni syeta by E. Hofman
  • Svedocanstva o tesli by Vladimir Pogacic
  • Tant qu'il y aura des bêtes by Braissai
  • Teatr lalek by Marian Ussorowski
  • Together by Lorenza Mazzetti
  • Tovarishch ukhodit v more by Nikita Kurikhin
  • Vand fra eufrat by Theodor Christensen

Official Awards

Maurice Lehmann, Jury President Maurice Lehmann 1940.jpg
Maurice Lehmann, Jury President
Jacques Cousteau, Palme d'Or winner Jacques-Yves Cousteau.jpg
Jacques Cousteau, Palme d'Or winner

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

OCIC Award

References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1956". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Awards 1956: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Official Selection 1956: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "1956 - Sous le ciel de Cannes (Under the sky of Cannes)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. 1 2 "9ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "From 1939 to the present/ Disputes under the palm trees". cannes.com. Archived from the original on 6 November 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Opening of the 1956 festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Closing evening of the 1956 Festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "Juries 1956 : All the Juries". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1956". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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