1954 Cannes Film Festival
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The 7th Cannes Film Festival was held on March 25 - April 9, 1954.[1] The Grand Prize of the Festival went to the Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa.[2] The festival opened with Le Grand Jeu by Robert Siodmak.[3][4]
Contents
Jury
Jean Cocteau, Jury President
- Jean Cocteau (France) (president)
- Jean Aurenche (France)
- André Bazin (France)
- Luis Buñuel
- Henri Calef (France)
- Guy Desson (France) (MP official)
- Philippe Erlanger (France)
- Michel Fourre-Cormeray (France)
- Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France) (CNC official)
- Jacques Ibert (France)
- Georges Lamousse (France) (senate official)
- André Lang (France)
- Noël-Noël (France)
- Georges Raguis (France) (union official)
- Henning Jensen (Denmark) (short films)
- Albert Lamorisse (France) (short films)
- Jean Queval (France) (journalist) (short films)
- Jean Tedesco (France) (short films)
- Jean Vivie (France) (CST official) (short films)
Feature film competition
- Avant le déluge by André Cayatte
- Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla by Ladislao Vajda
- Beneath the 12-Mile Reef by Robert D. Webb
- O Canto do Mar by Alberto Cavalcanti
- Carosello napoletano by Ettore Giannini
- Cirkus Fandango by Arne Skouen
- Cronache di poveri amanti by Carlo Lizzani
- Cómicos by Juan Antonio Bardem
- Do Bigha Zamin by Bimal Roy
- Feitiço do Amazonas by Zygmunt Sulistrowski
- From Here to Eternity by Fred Zinnemann
- Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Le Grand Jeu by Robert Siodmak
- Kärlekens bröd by Arne Mattsson
- Kiskrajcár by Márton Keleti
- Knave of Hearts by René Clément
- Knights of the Round Table by Richard Thorpe
- Koibumi by Kinuyo Tanaka
- Komedianti by Vladimír Vlcek
- Kyriakatiko xypnima by Michael Cacoyannis
- Die Letzte Brücke by Helmut Käutner
- Little Boy Lost by George Seaton
- The Little Kidnappers by Philip Leacock
- The Living Desert by Walt Disney and James Algar
- Maddalena by Augusto Genina
- Man of Africa by Cyril Frankel
- Mastera russkogo baleta by Gerbert Rappaport
- Mayurpankh by Kishore Sahu
- Memorias de un Mexicano by Carmen Toscano
- El Mártir del Calvario by Miguel Morayta
- Nigorie by Tadashi Imai
- El Niño y la niebla by Roberto Gavaldón
- Pamposh by Ezra Mir
- Piatka z ulicy Barskiej by Aleksander Ford
- Sangre y luces by Georges Rouquier and Ricardo Muñoz Suay
- Si mis campos hablaran by José Bohr
- Sira` Fi al-Wadi by Youssef Chahine
- Solange Du da bist by Harald Braun
- Det Stora Ädventyret by Arne Sucksdorff
- Sudba Mariny by Isaak Shmaruk and Viktor Ivchenko
- Todo es posible en Granada by Carlos Blanco and José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
- Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg by Sergei Yutkevich
- El Wahsh by Salah Abu Seif
Awards
Grand Prize of the Festival
Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa
Jury Special Prize
Knave of Hearts by René Clément
International Prize
- Avant le déluge by André Cayatte
- Carosello napoletano by Ettore Giannini
- Cronache di poveri amanti by Carlo Lizzani
- Do Bigha Zamin by Bimal Roy
- Piatka z ulicy Barskiej by Aleksander Ford
- Die Letzte Brücke by Helmut Käutner
- The Living Desert by James Algar
- Det Stora Ädventyret by Arne Sucksdorff
- The Great Warrior Skanderbeg by Sergei Yutkevich
Special Mention
- André Cayatte and Charles Spaak for Avant le déluge
- Maria Schell for her acting performance in Die Letzte Brücke
- The camera crew of The Living Desert
- Aleksander Ford for his direction of Five Boys from Barska Street
- Arne Sucksdorff for his direction of Det Stora Ädventyret
- Sergei Yutkevich for his direction of Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg
Special Award
From Here to Eternity by Fred Zinnemann
Best Puppet Short Film
O Sklenicku Vic by Břetislav Pojar
Best Fantastic-Poetic Film
The Pleasure Garden by James Broughton
OCIC Award
Die Letzte Brücke by Helmut Käutner
