1959 Cannes Film Festival
 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 |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or: Black Orpheus[2] |
| No. of films | 29 (In Competition)[3] |
| Festival date | 30 April 1959 – 15 May 1959 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
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]
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
[edit]Main Competition
[edit]- Marcel Achard, French writer - Jury President[10]
- Antoni Bohdziewicz, Polish filmmaker
- Michael Cacoyannis, Greek filmmaker
- Carlos Cuenca, Spanish
- Pierre Daninos, French writer
- Julien Duvivier, French filmmaker
- Max Favalelli, French
- Gene Kelly, American actor and filmmaker
- Carlo Ponti, Italian producer
- Micheline Presle, French actress
- Sergei Vasilyev, Soviet filmmaker
Short Films Competition
[edit]- Philippe Agostini, French cinematographer and filmmaker
- Antonin Brousil, Czechoslovakian
- Paula Talaskivi, Finnish
- Jean Vivie, French CST official
- Véra Volmane, French journalist
Official Selection
[edit]In Competition
[edit]The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(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 iliovasilemma | Andreas Labrinos | Greece |
| 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 Tien | Taiwan |
| 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
[edit]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
[edit]Main Competition
[edit]- Palme d'Or: Black Orpheus by Marcel Camus[6][2][11]
- Prix spécial du jury: Stars by Konrad Wolf
- Best Director: François Truffaut for The 400 Blows
- Best Actress: Simone Signoret for Room at the Top
- Best Actor: Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles for Compulsion
- Best Comedy Award: Policarpo by Mario Soldati
- International Award: Nazarín by Luis Buñuel
- Special Mention: The Snowy Heron by Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Award of the best selection to Czechoslovakia:
Short Films Competition
[edit]- Short Film Palme d'Or: Butterflies Don't Live Here by Miro Bernat
- Short film Jury Prize:
- New York, New York by Francis Thompson
- The Changing of the Guard by Włodzimierz Haupe
- Prix spécial du Jury: Histoire d'un poisson rouge by Edmond Sechan
- Special mention: Le petit pecheur de la Mer de Chine by Serge Hanin
- Hommage: La mer et les jours by Alain Kaminker, Raymond Vogel
Independent Awards
[edit]Commission Supérieure Technique
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Posters 1959". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
- ^ a b "Awards 1959: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
- ^ a b c "Official Selection 1959: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ "1959 - Festival, mon amour (Festival, my love)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival history". sfgate.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ a b "12ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "1952-1959: Celebrities, politics and the film world / "The 400 Blows"". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ "Opening of the 1959 festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Shock: Cannes 1959". ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Juries 1959". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "1959 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1959". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1959". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
Media
[edit]- Institut National de l'Audiovisuel: Opening of the 1959 festival
- INA: Arrival of the celebrities in Cannes (commentary in French)
- INA: List of winners of the 1959 Festival (commentary in French)
External links
[edit]- 1959 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1959 Archived 2019-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1959 at Internet Movie Database