1967 Cannes Film Festival

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1967 Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 20th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by René Ferracci. [1]
Opening film I Killed Rasputin
Closing filmBatouk
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Grand Prix du Festival
International du Film :
Blowup [2]
No. of films24 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date27 April 1967 (1967-04-27) – 12 May 1967 (1967-05-12)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 20th Cannes Film Festival took place from 27 April to 12 May 1967. [4] Italian filmmaker Alessandro Blasetti served as jury president for the main competition.

Contents

The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was awarded to Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni. [2]

The festival opened with I Killed Rasputin by Robert Hossein, and closed with Batouk by Jean Jacques Manigot. [5] [6] [7]

Juries

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film : [3]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Accident Joseph Losey United Kingdom
Blowup Michelangelo Antonioni United Kingdom, Italy
Degree of Murder Mord und Totschlag Volker Schlöndorff West Germany
Elvira Madigan Bo Widerberg Sweden
Entranced Earth Terra em Transe Glauber Rocha Brazil
Hagbard and Signe Den røde kappe / Den röda kappan / Rauða skikkjan Gabriel Axel Denmark, Sweden, Iceland
Hotel for Strangers Hotel pro cizince Antonín Máša Czechoslovakia
I Even Met Happy Gypsies Скупљачи перја Aleksandar Petrović Yugoslavia
L'immorale Pietro Germi Italy
Katerina Izmailova Катерина ИзмайловаMikhail ShapiroSoviet Union
The Killing Game Jeu de massacre Alain Jessua France
The Last Meeting Último encuentro Antonio Eceiza Spain
My Love, My Love Mon amour, mon amour Nadine Trintignant France
Misunderstood Incompreso Luigi Comencini Italy
Monday's ChildLa chica del lunes Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Argentina
Mouchette Robert Bresson France
Pedro Páramo Carlos Velo Mexico
Ten Thousand Days Tízezer nap Ferenc Kósa Hungary
Three Days and a Child שלושה ימים וילד Uri Zohar Israel
Ulysses Joseph Strick Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
The Unknown Man of Shandigor L'Inconnu de Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy Switzerland
We Still Kill the Old Way A ciascuno il suo Elio Petri Italy
The Winds of the Aures ريح الاوراس Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Algeria
You're a Big Boy Now Francis Ford Coppola United States

Out of Competition

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

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Batouk(closing film)Jean Jacques ManigotFrance
Closely Watched Trains Ostre sledované vlaky Jiří Menzel Czechoslovakia
Le Conquérent de l'inutile (A la mémoire de Lionel Terray) Marcel Ichac France
I Killed Rasputin (opening film)J'ai tué Raspoutine Robert Hossein France, Italy
Privilege Peter Watkins United Kingdom
Restauration du Grand Trianon Pierre Zimmer France
War and Peace Война и мир Sergei Bondarchuk Soviet Union

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival: [3]

  • Crunch-crunch by Carlos Marchiori
  • Dada by Greta Deses
  • L'Emploi du temps by Bernard Lemoine
  • Gloire à Félix Tournachon by André Martin
  • Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature by John Hubley
  • Insitne umenie by Vlado Kubenko
  • Jedan plus jedan jeste tri by Branko Ranitovic
  • Larghetto by Waclaw Kondek
  • Napló by György Kovásznai
  • Opus by Don Levy
  • Remedios Varo by Jomí García Ascot
  • Sky Over Holland by John Fernhout
  • La Tana by Luigi Di Gianni
  • Toys by Grant Munro
  • Versailles by Albert Lamorisse
  • Die Widerrechtliche Ausübung der Astronomie by Peter Schamoni

Parallel section

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 6th International Critics' Week (6e Semaine de la Critique): [9]

Official Awards

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Alessandro Blasetti, Jury President

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

Commission Supérieure Technique

OCIC Award

References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1967". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "20ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Official Selection 1967: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "1967 - Accidents de parcours (Road accidents)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ↑ A.H. Weiler, The Flight Plan of 'Peter Pan' , New York Times. pp. 11. 27 November February 1966. Retrieved on 10 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "Opening of the 1967 festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival". ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017. Translation: On the occasion of the coming projection of "Batouk", which will close the 20th Festival International du Film de Cannes...
  8. ↑ "Juries 1967: Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "6e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1967". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1967". imdb.com. Retrieved 3 July 2017.

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