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1958 Cannes Film Festival
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 1958 Cannes Film Festival |
| image | CFF58poster.jpg |
| caption | Official poster of the 11th Cannes Film Festival |
| number | 26 (In Competition) |
| location | Cannes, France |
| awards | *Palme d'Or*: |
| *The Cranes Are Flying* | |
| date | – |
| founded | 1946 |
| website | |
| main | Cannes Film Festival |
| previous | [1957](1957-cannes-film-festival) |
| next | [1959](1959-cannes-film-festival) |
The Cranes Are Flying
The 11th Cannes Film Festival took place from 2 to 18 May 1958. French writer Marcel Achard served as Jury President for the main competition.
The Palme d'Or was awarded to The Cranes Are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov.
Juries
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1958 competition:
Main Competition
- Marcel Achard, French writer - Jury President
- Tomiko Asabuki, Japanese
- Bernard Buffet, French painter
- Jean De Baroncelli, French film critic
- Helmut Käutner, West-German filmmaker
- Dudley Leslie, British writer
- Madeleine Robinson, French actress
- Ladislao Vajda, Hungarian filmmaker
- Charles Vidor, American filmmaker
- Sergei Yutkevich, Soviet filmmaker
- Cesare Zavattini, Italian writer
Short Films Competition
- Norman McLaren, Canadian animator
- Jean Mitry, French film theorist, critic and filmmaker
- Krishna Riboud, India historian
- Edmond Séchan, French cinematographer and film director
- Jerzy Toeplitz, Polish film educator
Official Selections
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| *Brink of Life* | *Nära livet* | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| *The Brothers Karamazov* | Richard Brooks | United States | |
| *La caleta olvidada* | Bruno Gebel | Chile | |
| ***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 Pronin | India, 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 bronze* | Bernard Taisant | France | |
| *Young Husbands* | *Giovani mariti* | Mauro Bolognini | Italy |
Out of Competition
The following film was selected to be screened out of competition:
- Gigi by Vincente Minnelli
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
- 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
- Palme d'Or: The Cranes Are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov
- Best Director: Ingmar Bergman for Brink of Life
- Best Screenplay: Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Pier Paolo Pasolini for Young Husbands
- Best Actress: Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs and Ingrid Thulin for Brink of Life
- Best Actor: Paul Newman for The Long, Hot Summer
- Jury Prize:
- Goha by Jacques Baratier
- Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
- Jury Special Prize: Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
- Special Mention: Tatiana Samoilova for The Cranes Are Flying
Short Films Competition
- Short Film Palme d'Or:
- La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel and Jean Suyeux
- La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
- Special Prize:
- Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich
- Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiri Brnecka
Independent Awards
[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prize]]
- Vengeance by Juan Antonio Bardem
References
Media
- British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1958 footage
- British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
- British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
- INA: Opening of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)
- INA: Celebrities at the 1958 Cannes festival (commentary in French)
- INA: Closure of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)
References
- "Posters 1958". festival-cannes.fr.
- "1958 - Au seuil de la nouvelle vague (On the threshold of the new wave)". cannes-fest.com.
- "11ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr.
- "Juries 1958". festival-cannes.fr.
- "Official Selection 1958: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr.
- "Awards 1958: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr.
- "FIPRESCI Awards 1958". fipresci.org.
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