1958 Cannes Film Festival

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1958 Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 11th Cannes Film Festival [1]
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palme d'Or :
The Cranes Are Flying [2]
No. of films26 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date2 May 1958 (1958-5-2) – 18 May 1958 (1958-05-18)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 11th Cannes Film Festival took place from 2 to 18 May 1958. [4] French writer Marcel Achard served as Jury President for the main competition.

Contents

The Palme d'Or was awarded to The Cranes Are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov. [5]

Juries

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1958 competition: [6]

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Official Selections

In Competition

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

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Brink of Life Nära livet Ingmar Bergman Sweden
The Brothers Karamazov Richard Brooks United States
La caleta olvidada Bruno GebelChile
The Cranes Are Flying Летят журавли Mikhail Kalatozov Soviet Union
Desire Under the Elms Delbert Mann United States
The Flute and the Arrow En Djungelsaga Arne Sucksdorff Sweden
Girl and the River L'eau vive François Villiers France
Goha Jacques Baratier
Iron Flower Vasvirág János Herskó Hungary
The Long, Hot Summer Martin Ritt United States
A Man of Straw L'uomo di paglia Pietro Germi Italy
A Matter of Dignity Το τελευταίο ψέμα Michael Cacoyannis Greece
Mon Oncle Jacques Tati France, Italy
Nine Lives Ni Liv Arne Skouen Norway
Orders to Kill Anthony Asquith United Kingdom
Parash Pathar পরশ পাথর Satyajit Ray India
Pardesi Хождение за три моря Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili ProninIndia, Soviet Union
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock Rosaura a las diez Mario Soffici Argentina
Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin Ernst Marischka Austria
Snow Country 雪国 Shirō Toyoda Japan
The Spessart Inn Das Wirtshaus im Spessart Kurt Hoffmann West Germany
Suburban Romance Žižkovská romance Zbyněk Brynych Czechoslovakia
The Thistles of the Baragan Ciulinii Bărăganului Louis Daquin Romania
Vengeance La Venganza Juan Antonio Bardem Spain
Visages de bronzeBernard TaisantFrance
Young Husbands Giovani mariti Mauro Bolognini Italy

Out of Competition

The following film was selected to be screened out of competition: [3]

Short Films Competition

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

  • A.B.C. by John Fernhout
  • Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich
  • Dubrovacki pasteli by Marijan Vajda
  • Egy masodperc tortenete by Ágoston Kollányi
  • Gloria dei Medici by Antonio Petrucci
  • Goya, una vida apasionada by José María Ochoa
  • Grafica cloveku by France Kosmac
  • Horyû-Ji by Susumu Hani
  • La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel
  • La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
  • Les mystères d'une goutte d'eau by Ann H. Matzner Dr.
  • Log Drive by Raymond Garceau
  • Mandu by Neil Gokhale
  • Nagrodzone uczucia by Walerian Borowczyk & Jan Lenica
  • Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiří Brdečka
  • Ô saisons ô châteaux by Agnès Varda
  • Perameren hylkeenpyytajat by Ulf Backstrom
  • Sapte Arte by Ion Popescu-Gopo
  • Sintra by João Mendes
  • The Story of a Roof by Jamie Uys
  • Trees And Jamaica Daddy by Lew Keller
  • Voici le pays d'Israel by Jean Lehérissey
  • Y gorakh salianskykh by Leonid Belokurov, Y. Przyjemski
  • Zimniy prazdnik by Mikhail Slutsky

Official Awards

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1958". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Awards 1958: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Official Selection 1958: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "1958 - Au seuil de la nouvelle vague (On the threshold of the new wave)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "11ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Juries 1958". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1958". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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