 Official poster of the 11th Cannes Film Festival[1] | |
| Location | Cannes, France |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or (The Cranes are Flying)[2] |
| No. of films | 26 (In Competition)[3] 1 (Out of Competition) 24 (Short Film) |
| Festival date | 2 May 1958 – 18 May 1958 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 11th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 18 May 1958.[4] The Palme d'Or went to The Cranes are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov.[5]
Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1958 competition:[6]
Feature films
- Marcel Achard (France) Jury President
- Tomiko Asabuki (Japan)
- Bernard Buffet (France)
- Jean De Baroncelli (France) (critic)
- Helmut Käutner (West Germany)
- Dudley Leslie (UK)
- Madeleine Robinson (France)
- Ladislao Vajda (Hungary)
- Charles Vidor (USA)
- Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union)
- Cesare Zavattini (Italy)
Short films
- Norman McLaren (Canada)
- Jean Mitry (France)
- Krishna Riboud (India)
- Edmond Séchan (France)
- Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
Feature film competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
- Brink of Life (Nära livet) by Ingmar Bergman
- The Brothers Karamazov by Richard Brooks
- La Caleta olvidada by Bruno Gebel
- Ciulinii Bărăganului by Louis Daquin
- The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov
- Desire Under the Elms by Delbert Mann
- The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga) by Arne Sucksdorff
- Girl and the River (L'eau vive) by François Villiers
- Goha by Jacques Baratier
- Iron Flower (Vasvirág) by János Herskó
- Journey Beyond Three Seas (Pardesi) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin
- The Long, Hot Summer by Martin Ritt
- A Man of Straw (L'uomo di paglia) by Pietro Germi
- A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema) by Michael Cacoyannis
- Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
- Nine Lives (Ni liv) by Arne Skouen
- Orders to Kill by Anthony Asquith
- Parash Pathar by Satyajit Ray
- Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Rosaura a las 10) by Mario Soffici
- Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin) by Ernst Marischka
- Snow Country (Yukiguni) by Shirō Toyoda
- The Spessart Inn (Das Wirtshaus im Spessart) by Kurt Hoffmann
- Suburban Romance (Zizkovská romance) by Zbyněk Brynych
- Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem
- Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
- Young Husbands (Giovani mariti) by Mauro Bolognini
Out of competition
The following film was selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
Short film 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
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1958 awards:[2]
- Palme d'Or: The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov
- Best Director: Ingmar Bergman for Brink of Life (Nära livet)
- Best Screenplay: Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Pier Paolo Pasolini for Young Husbands (Giovani mariti)
- Best Actress: Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs and Ingrid Thulin for Brink of Life (Nära livet)
- Best Actor: Paul Newman for The Long, Hot Summer
- Special Mention:Tatiana Samoylova for Letyat zhuravli
- Jury Prize:
- Goha by Jacques Baratier
- Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
- Jury Special Prize: Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
Short films
- 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
- Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem
References
- ↑ "Posters 1958". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- 1 2 "Awards 1958: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 "Official Selection 1958: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ↑ "1958 - Au seuil de la nouvelle vague (On the threshold of the new wave)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ↑ "11ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ↑ "Juries 1958". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1958". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
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)
External links
- 1958 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1958 Archived 2018-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1958 at Internet Movie Database
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