1959 Cannes Film Festival

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1959 Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 12th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Jouineau Bourduge. [1]
Opening film The 400 Blows
Closing film The Diary of Anne Frank
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palme d'Or :
Black Orpheus [2]
No. of films29 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date30 April 1959 (1959-04-30) – 15 May 1959 (1959-05-15)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 12th Cannes Film Festival took place from 30 April to 15 May 1959. [4] French writer Marcel Achard served as Jury President for the main competition. [5] The Palme d'Or went to the Black Orpheus by Marcel Camus. [6]

Contents

In 1959, the Marché du Film (lit. Film Market) was established as the business counterpart of the Cannes Film Festival, with the aim of helping meet the needs of film industry professionals. Before this year the market was held unofficially in the cinemas of the rue d'Antibes in Cannes. Another important development of that year for the Festival, was that the French cinema moved away from the Ministry of Industry and became part of Ministry of Cultural Affairs. [7]

The festival opened with The 400 Blows by François Truffaut, and closed with The Diary of Anne Frank by George Stevens. [8] [9]

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
The 400 Blows (opening film)Les Quatre Cents Coups François Truffaut France
Araya Margot Benacerraf Venezuela
Arms and the Man Helden Franz Peter Wirth West Germany
Black Orpheus Orfeu Negro Marcel Camus France, Brazil, Italy
Bloody Twilight Matomeno iliovasilemmaAndreas LabrinosGreece
Compulsion Richard Fleischer United States
Court Martial Kriegsgericht Kurt Meisel West Germany
Desire Touha Vojtěch Jasný Czechoslovakia
The Diary of Anne Frank (closing film) George Stevens United States
Édes Anna Zoltán Fábri Hungary
Eva Die Halbzarte Rolf Thiele Austria
Fanfare Bert Haanstra Netherlands
Hiroshima mon amour Alain Resnais France, Japan
A Home for Tanya Отчий дом Lev Kulidzhanov Soviet Union
Honeymoon Luna de Miel Michael Powell United Kingdom, Spain
Lajwanti Narendra Suri India
Middle of the Night Delbert Mann United States
A Midsummer Night's Dream Sen noci svatojánské Jiří Trnka Czechoslovakia
Miss April Fröken April Göran Gentele Sweden
Nazarín Luis Buñuel Mexico
Policarpo Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura Mario Soldati Italy
Portuguese Rhapsody Rapsódia Portuguesa João Mendes Portugal
Room at the Top Jack Clayton United Kingdom
The Sinner蕩婦與聖女Shen TienTaiwan
The Snowy Heron 白鷺 Teinosuke Kinugasa Japan
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa La Cucaracha Ismael Rodríguez Mexico
Stars Sterne Konrad Wolf East Germany, Bulgaria
Sugar Harvest Zafra Lucas Demare Argentina
Train Without a Timetable Vlak bez voznog reda Veljko Bulajić Yugoslavia

Short Films Competition

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

  • A Telhetetlen mehecske by Gyula Macskássy
  • Cinématographier or Préhistoire du cinema by Emile Degelin
  • Corrida interdite by Denys Colomb Daunant
  • Deca sa granice by Purisa Djordjevic
  • Eine Stadt feiert Geburtstag by Ferdinand Khittl
  • Espana 1.800 by Jesús Fernández Santos
  • Fartsfeber by Finn Carlsby
  • Histoire d'un poisson rouge by Edmond Sechan
  • Hsi yu chi by Tei Yang
  • La mer et les jours by Alain Kaminker, Raymond Vogel
  • La primera fundacion de Buenos Aires by Fernando Birri
  • Le petit pecheur de la Mer de Chine by Serge Hanin
  • Le Seigneur Julius by Khaled Abdul Wahab
  • Ligeud ad luftvejen by Henning Carlsen
  • Butterflies Don't Live Here (Motyli zde neziji) by Miro Bernat
  • Neobjknovennie vstretchi by Archa Ovanessova
  • New York, New York by Francis Thompson
  • Paese d'America by Gian Luigi Polidoro
  • Pecheurs de Sozopol by Nikolay Borovishki
  • See Pakistan by W.J. Moylan
  • Sinn im Sinnlosen by Bernhard Von Peithner-Lichtenfels
  • Taj Mahal (short film) by Shri Mushir Ahmed
  • Ten Men in a Boat by Sydney Latter
  • The Fox Has Four Eyes by Jamie Uys
  • The Living Stone by John Feeney
  • Tussenspel bij kaarslicht by Charles Huguenot Van Der Linden
  • Zmiana warty (The Changing of the Guard) by Włodzimierz Haupe

Official Awards

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

Commission Supérieure Technique

OCIC Award

References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1959". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Awards 1959: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Official Selection 1959: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "1959 - Festival, mon amour (Festival, my love)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival history". sfgate.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  6. 1 2 "12ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "1952-1959: Celebrities, politics and the film world / "The 400 Blows"". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Opening of the 1959 festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "Shock: Cannes 1959". ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "Juries 1959". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "1959 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  12. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1959". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  13. 1 2 "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1959". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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