1961 Cannes Film Festival

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1961 Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 14th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by A.M. Rodicq. [1]
Opening film The Joy of Living
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palme d'Or :
The Long Absence
Viridiana [2]
No. of films30 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date3 May 1961 (1961-05-03) – 18 May 1961 (1961-05-18)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 14th Cannes Film Festival took place from 3 to 18 May 1961. [4] French writer Jean Giono served as jury president for the main competition.

Contents

The Palme d'Or was jointly awarded to The Long Absence by Henri Colpi and Viridiana by Luis Buñuel. [5]

The festival also screened Shirley Clarke's debut film The Connection , due to the efforts of the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. The success of the film caused the festival to create International Critics' Week the following year. [6]

The festival opened with The Joy of Living by René Clément.

Jury

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Official Selection

Main Competition

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

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
The Brute Dúvad Zoltán Fábri Hungary
Chronicle of Flaming Years Повесть пламенных лет Yuliya Solntseva Soviet Union
The Cossacks КазакиVasili Pronin
Darclee Mihai Iacob Romania
The First Mass A Primeira Missa Lima Barreto Brazil
The Fourteenth Day Дан четрнаести Zdravko Velimirović Yugoslavia
Girl with a Suitcase La Ragazza con la valigia Valerio Zurlini Italy, France
Goodbye Again Aimez-vous Brahms? Anatole Litvak United States, France
The Hand in the Trap La Mano en la trampa Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Argentina
Her Brother おとうと Kon Ichikawa Japan
The Hoodlum Priest Irvin Kershner United States
I Like Mike איי לייק מייק Peter Frye Israel
The Joy of Living (opening film)Che gioia vivere René Clément Italy, France
The Judge Domaren Alf Sjöberg Sweden
The Knife Het Mes Fons Rademakers Netherlands
The Last Witness Der Letzte Zeuge Wolfgang Staudte West Germany
The Long Absence Une aussi longue absence Henri Colpi France
The Lovemakers La Viaccia Mauro Bolognini Italy
Madalena Μανταλένα Dinos Dimopoulos Greece
The Mark Guy Green United Kingdom
Mother Joan of the Angels Matka Joanna od aniolów Jerzy Kawalerowicz Poland
The Passionate Demons Line Nils Reinhardt Christensen Norway
Plein sudGaston De GerlacheBelgium
A Raisin in the Sun Daniel Petrie United States
Sky Above and Mud Beneath Le Ciel et la boue Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau France
A Song About the Gray Pigeon Pieseň o sivom holuboviStanislav BarabášCzechoslovakia
That Forward Center Died at Dawn El Centroforward murió al amanecer René Mugica Argentina
Two Women La Ciociara Vittorio De Sica Italy, France
Viridiana Luis Buñuel Spain, Mexico
The Wastrel Il Relitto Michael Cacoyannis Italy, Cyprus

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]

  • Aicha by Noureddine Mechri and Francis Warin
  • Argentina paraiso de la pesca by Antonio Ber Ciani
  • The Art of Lee Hsiang-Fen by Henry T.C. Wang
  • Balgarski ansambal za narodni pesni i tanzi by Lada Boyadjieva
  • The Black Cat by Robert Braverman
  • Cattle Ranch by Guy L. Coté
  • Children of the Sun by John Hubley and Faith Hubley
  • The Creation of Woman by Charles F. Schwep
  • Cyrus le grand by Feri Farzaneh
  • The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
  • Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross by Leonid Gaidai
  • Fantazie pro levou ruku a lidske svedomi by Pavel Hobl
  • Le Festival de Baalbeck 1960 by David McDonald
  • Folkwangschulen by Herbert Vesely
  • Foroyar by Jørgen Roos
  • Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) by José Val del Omar
  • Giovedi: passeggiata by Vincenzo Gamna
  • Gorod bolshoy sudby by Ilya Kopalin
  • House of Hashimoto by Connie Rasinski
  • Hudozhnikat Zlatyu Boyadzhiev by Ivan Popov
  • Kangra et kulu by N.S. Thapa
  • Na vez by Branko Kalacic
  • Nebbia by Raffaele Andreassi
  • Paul Valéry by Roger Leenhardt
  • Párbaj by Gyula Macskássy
  • La Petite Cuillère by Carlos Vilardebó
  • Robert Frost by Sidney J. Stiber
  • Souvenirs from Sweden by Henning Carlsen
  • Taketori Monogatari by Kazuhiko Watanabe
  • W kręgu ciszy by Jerzy Ziarnik
Luis Bunuel, one of the two Palme d'Or winners LuisBunuel1929.jpg
Luis Buñuel, one of the two Palme d'Or winners

Official Awards

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

Commission Supérieure Technique

OCIC Award

Other Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1961". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Awards 1961: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Official Selection 1961: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "1961 - Deux palmes au soleil (Two palms in the sun)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. 1 2 "14ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "History". semainedelacritique.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Juries 1961". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1961". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "14th Cannes Film Festival". fipresci.org. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  10. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1961". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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