1956 Cannes Film Festival
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Jury

  • Maurice Lehmann (France) (president)
  • Arletty
    Arletty
    Arletty was a French actress, singer, and fashion model.-Life and career:Arletty was born Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat in Courbevoie , to a working-class family. Her early career was dominated by the music hall, and she later appeared in plays and cabaret. Arletty was a stage performer for ten years...

     (France)
  • Louise de Vilmorin (France)
  • Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France)
  • Henri Jeanson
    Henri Jeanson
    Henri Jeanson, was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of Pataphysics".- As a journalist before World War II :...

     (France)
  • Domenico Meccoli
    Domenico Meccoli
    Domenico Meccoli was an Italian screenwriter and actor. He wrote for nine films between 1939 and 1954. He was a member of the jury at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival and at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival in 1968.-Selected filmography:* La Strada finisce sul fiume * Tom Toms of Mayumba...

     (Italy)
  • Otto Preminger
    Otto Preminger
    Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...

     (USA)
  • James Quinn
    James Quinn (BFI Director)
    James Quinn was a film administrator, producer and exhibitor.He was best known as one of the longest-serving Directors of the British Film Institute...

     (UK)
  • Roger Regent (France)
  • María Romero (Chile)
  • Sergei Vasilyev
    Sergei Vasilyev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Vasilyev was a Soviet film director, editor, and screenwriter. From 1928 to 1943 together with Georgi Vasilyev he co-directed several films, including an influential and critically acclaimed Chapaev...

     (Soviet Union)
  • Francis Bolen (Belgium) (short films)
  • Antonin Brousil (Czechoslovakia) (short films)
  • Henri Fabiani (France) (short films)
  • Paul Grimault
    Paul Grimault
    Paul Grimault was one of the most important French animators. He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical in nature....

     (France) (short films)
  • Jean Perdrix (France) (short films)

Feature film competition

  • Afacerea Protar
    The Protar Affair
    The Protar Affair is a 1956 Romanian comedy film directed by Haralambie Boros. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Radu Beligan - Prof. Andronic* Jenica Constantinescu* Ion Fintesteanu* Ion Iancovescu* Ion Lucian...

    by Haralambie Boros
  • Cien
    Shadow (film)
    Shadow is a 1956 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:The plot involves a Rashōmon-like investigation into the life of a man who has been found dead after having been hurled from a train...

    by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
  • Dalibor
    Dalibor (film)
    Dalibor is a 1956 Czech film of the opera of the same name by Bedřich Smetana. Directed by Václav Krška, the film was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Václav Bednář - King Vladislav* Karel Fiala - Dalibor* Věra Heroldová - Milada...

    by Václav Krška
    Václav Krška
    Václav Krška was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He directed 31 films between 1939 and 1969.-Selected filmography:* Měsíc nad řekou * Stříbrný vítr * Dalibor -External links:...

  • La escondida
    The Hidden One
    The Hidden One is a 1956 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carlos Agostí - Octavio Montero* Pedro Armendáriz - Felipe Rojano* María Félix - Gabriela* Sara Guasch...

    by Roberto Gavaldón
    Roberto Gavaldón
    Roberto Gavaldón was a Mexican film director.Eight of Gavaldón's films were featured on the list 100 Best Movies of the Cinema of Mexico...

  • Il ferroviere
    The Railroad Man
    The Railroad Man is a 1956 Italian language award winning drama film directed by Pietro Germi.It is available on DVD in USA on NoShame films.-Cast:* Pietro Germi - Andrea Marcocci* Luisa Della Noce - Sara Marcocci...

    by Pietro Germi
    Pietro Germi
    Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...

  • Gli innamorati
    Wild Love (film)
    Wild Love is a 1955 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Antonella Lualdi - Adriana Latini* Franco Interlenghi - Franco* Sergio Raimondi - Nando Latini* Valeria Moriconi - Marisa...

    by Mauro Bolognini
    Mauro Bolognini
    Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....

  • Hanka
    Hanka (film)
    Hanka is a 1955 Yugoslavian film directed by Slavko Vorkapić. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mira Stupica - Ajkuna* Mihajlo Mrvaljevic - Musan * Jovan Milicevic - Sejdo* Vera Gregovic - Hanka...

    by Slavko Vorkapić
    Slavko Vorkapic
    Slavko Vorkapić , was a Serbian-American film director and editor, former Dean of USC Film School, painter, and a prominent figure of modern cinematography and film art.-Early life:Slavko Vorkapić was born on March 17, 1894, in...

  • The Harder They Fall
    The Harder They Fall
    The Harder They Fall is a film noir directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart in his last film before his death in 1957. The film was written by Philip Yordan and based on the 1947 novel by Budd Schulberg....

    by Mark Robson
    Mark Robson
    Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood.-Career:Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios...

  • Ikimono no kiroku
    I Live in Fear
    is a 1955 Japanese film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was co-written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumio Hayasaka, and Hideo Oguni.The film stars Kurosawa regulars Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It is in black-and-white and runs 103 minutes. The film was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film...

    by Akira Kurosawa
    Akira Kurosawa
    was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...

  • I'll Cry Tomorrow
    I'll Cry Tomorrow
    I'll Cry Tomorrow is a biopic which tells the story of Lillian Roth, a Broadway star who rebels against the pressure of her domineering mother and reacts to the death of her fiancé by becoming an alcoholic...

    by Daniel Mann
    Daniel Mann
    Daniel Mann, also known as Daniel Chugerman , was an American film and television director.Daniel Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a stage actor since childhood, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, New York's Professional Children's School and the Neighborhood Playhouse...

  • Körhinta
    Merry-Go-Round (1956 film)
    Merry-Go-Round is a 1956 Hungarian drama film directed by Zoltán Fábri, based on the short story Kútban by Imre Sarkadi...

    by Zoltán Fábri
    Zoltán Fábri
    Zoltán Fábri was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films The Boys of Paul Street and Hungarians were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....

  • To Koritsi me ta mavra
    The Girl in Black
    A Girl in Black is a 1956 Greek dramatic film by Cypriot director Michael Cacoyannis starring Dimitris Horn and Ellie Lambeti. The film takes place on the Greek island of Hydra, where two Athenian visitors become entangled in local feuds after one of them falls in love with a local girl.It was one...

    by Michael Cacoyannis
  • Maboroshi no uma
    The Phantom Horse
    is a 1955 color Japanese drama film directed by Koji Shima. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bontarô Miyake - Yasuke Shiraishi* Ayako Wakao - Yuki Shiraishi* Yukihiro Iwatare - Jiro Shiraishi...

    by Koji Shima
    Koji Shima
    was a Japanese film director, actor and screenwriter.-Career:Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He was in the first class of the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō and joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. Playing mostly romantic leads, he...

  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
    The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
    The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson, is a 1955 novel about the American search for purpose in a world dominated by business. Tom and Betsy Rath share a struggle to find contentment in their hectic and material culture while several other characters fight essentially the same battle,...

    by Nunnally Johnson
    Nunnally Johnson
    Nunnally Hunter Johnson was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed motion pictures.Johnson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the New York Herald Tribune...

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)
    The Man Who Knew Too Much is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a remake in widescreen VistaVision and Technicolor of Hitchcock's 1934 film of the same name....

    by Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...

  • The Man Who Never Was
    The Man Who Never Was
    The Man Who Never Was is a nonfiction 1953 book by Ewen Montagu and a 1956 Second World War war film, based on the book and dramatising actual events...

    by Ronald Neame
    Ronald Neame
    Ronald Elwin Neame CBE, BSC was an English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director.-Early career:...

  • Marie-Antoinette reine de France
    Marie Antoinette Queen of France
    Marie Antoinette Queen of France is a French language motion picture historical drama directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote screenplay with Pierre Erlanger and Bernard Zimmer. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Richard Todd...

    by Jean Delannoy
    Jean Delannoy
    Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...

  • Meeuwen sterven in de haven
    Seagulls Die in the Harbour
    Seagulls Die in the Harbour is a 1955 Belgian drama film directed by Rik Kuypers, Ivo Michiels and Roland Verhavert. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tine Balder - Schippersvrouw* Tone Brulin - Pooier* Alice De Graef...

    by Roland Verhavert
    Roland Verhavert
    Roland Verhavert is a Belgian film director. He directed 44 films between 1955 and 1993. He co-directed the 1955 film Seagulls Die in the Harbour, which was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. His 1974 film The Conscript was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film...

    , Ivo Michiels
    Ivo Michiels
    Henri Ceuppens , pseudonym Ivo Michiels is a Belgian writer. In 1965, he married Christiane Faes. In 1979, he established himself he as full-time writer in the Vaucluse ....

     and Rik Kuypers
    Rik Kuypers
    Rik Kuypers is a Belgian film director. He directed 29 films between 1947 and 1981. He co-directed the film Seagulls Die in the Harbour, which was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...

  • Mat
    Mother (1955 film)
    Mother is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Mark Donskoy and based on the eponimous novel by Maxim Gorky. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Vera Maretskaya - Pelagea Nilovna Vlassovna, the mother...

    by Mark Donskoi
    Mark Donskoi
    Mark Semyonovich Donskoy was a Soviet film director. His most famous work was the Gorky Trilogy, consisting of The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, My Apprenticeship, and My Universities.-Selected filmography:...

  • Le Monde du silence
    The Silent World
    The Silent World is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by the famed French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Louis Malle. The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color...

    by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...

     and Louis Malle
    Louis Malle
    Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...

  • Mozart
    Mozart (1955 film)
    Mozart is a 1955 Austrian drama film directed by Karl Hartl. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Oskar Werner - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart* Johanna Matz - Annie Gottlieb...

    by Karl Hartl
    Karl Hartl
    Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...

  • Le mystère Picasso
    The Mystery of Picasso
    The Mystery of Picasso is a 1956 French documentary film about the painter Pablo Picasso. It shows Picasso in the act of creating paintings for the camera...

    by Henri-Georges Clouzot
    Henri-Georges Clouzot
    Henri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, which are critically recognized to be among the greatest films from the 1950s...

  • Othello
    Othello (1955 film)
    Othello is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich, based on the play Othello by William Shakespeare. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sergei Bondarchuk - Othello* Irina Skobtseva - Desdemona...

    by Sergei Yutkevich
    Sergei Yutkevich
    Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was an award-winning Soviet film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:He began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Later he helped found the Factory of the Eccentric Actor , which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts. He entered films in the...

  • Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

  • Pedagogicheskaya poema
    Road to Life
    Road to Life is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Maslyukov and Mechislava Mayevskaya and based on the book by Anton Makarenko. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Vladimir Yemelyanov - Anton Semyonovich Makarenko...

    by Aleksei Maslyukov and Mechislava Mayevskaya
  • Seido no Kirisuto
    Christ in Bronze
    is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Eiji Okada* Kazuko Okada* Osamu Takizawa* Shinobu Araki* Akira Ishihama* Kyōko Kagawa* Kinzo Shin* Isuzu Yamada...

    by Minoru Shibuya
    Minoru Shibuya
    was a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Shibuya attended Keiō University but left before graduating. He joined Shochiku in 1930 and worked as an assistant under Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Heinosuke Gosho, before making his debut as a director in 1937...

  • Seven Years in Tibet
    Seven Years in Tibet (1956 film)
    Seven Years in Tibet is a 1956 British documentary film directed by Hans Nieter. It's based on the book of the same name. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Hans Nieter
  • Shabab emraa
    The Leech
    The Leech is a 1956 Egyptian drama film directed by Salah Abu Seif. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Shadia* Taheya Cariocca as Shafaat* Shukry Sarhan* Abdel Warith Assir* Seraj Munir* Ferdoos Mohammed as Mother...

    by Salah Abu Seif
    Salah Abu Seif
    Salah Abu Seif was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors. He is considered to be the godfather of the realistic cinema in Egypt...

  • Shevgyachya Shenga
    Drumsticks (film)
    Drumsticks is a 1955 Indian film directed by Shantaram Athavale. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Shantaram Athavale
  • Sob o Céu da Bahia
    Sob o Céu da Bahia
    Sob o Céu da Bahia is a 1956 Brazilian adventure film directed by Ernesto Remani. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sérgio Hingst - Ramiro* María Moreno - Maria* Ricardo Campos* David Conde* Francisco Santos* Carlos Torres...

    by Ernesto Remani
  • Sommarnattens leende
    Smiles of a Summer Night
    Smiles of a Summer Night a.k.a. Smiles on a Summer Night is a 1955 Swedish comedy film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was the first of Bergman's films to bring the director international success, due to its exposure at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival...

    by Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman
    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...

  • Talpa
    Talpa (film)
    Talpa is a 1956 Mexican drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Lilia Prado - Juana* Leonor Llausás - La presumida* Víctor Manuel Mendoza - Tanilo* Jaime Fernández - Esteban...

    by Alfredo B. Crevenna
    Alfredo B. Crevenna
    Alfredo B. Crevenna was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 151 films between 1945 and 1995.-External links:...

  • Tarde de toros
    Afternoon of the Bulls
    Afternoon of the Bulls is a 1956 Spanish drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards.-Selected cast:...

    by Ladislao Vajda
  • Il tetto
    The Roof (film)
    The Roof is a 1956 Italian drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica.-Plot:Natale, an apprentice bricklayer, and Luisa, who has no skill, marry and try to live with Natale's parents and his seven brothers and sisters in one appartment. This is Rome about 1950. After a quarrel Natale...

    by Vittorio De Sica
    Vittorio de Sica
    Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

  • Tochka parva
    Item One
    Item One is a 1956 Bulgarian drama film directed by Boyan Danovski. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Rumyana Chokoyska - Veska* Zheni Bozhinova - Maykata na Veska* Ruzha Delcheva - Predsedatelkata...

    by Boyan Danovski
  • Toubib el affia by Henry Jacques
  • El Último perro
    El Último perro
    El Último perro is a 1956 Argentine film directed by Lucas Demare. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Domingo Sapelli - Don Facundo* Hugo del Carril - Nicasio* Rosa Catá - Dona Juana* Nelly Panizza - Martina...

    by Lucas Demare
    Lucas Demare
    Lucas Demare was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer prominent in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....

  • Walk Into Paradise
    Walk Into Paradise
    Walk Into Paradise is a 1956 Australian adventure film directed by Lee Robinson and Marcello Pagliero shot on location in the highlands of Papua New Guinea....

    by Lee Robinson
    Lee Robinson (director)
    Lee Robinson was an Australian producer, director and screenwriter.-Biography:A short story writer prior to the war, Robinson first entered film as a member of the Australian Army History Unit where he filmed Australian troops in Rabaul and East Timor.After the war he joined the Australian...

  • Yield to the Night
    Yield to the Night
    Yield to the Night is a 1956 British crime drama film starring Diana Dors as a murderess sentenced to hang and spending her last days in the condemned cell in a British women's prison...

    by J. Lee Thompson
    J. Lee Thompson
    John Lee Thompson , better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.- Early years :...


Awards

  • Palme d'Or
    Palme d'Or
    The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

    : The Silent World
    The Silent World
    The Silent World is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by the famed French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Louis Malle. The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color...

    by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...

     and Louis Malle
    Louis Malle
    Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...

  • Jury Special Prize
    Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It is considered the third most prestigious prize at the film festival, after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix....

    : The Mystery of Picasso
    The Mystery of Picasso
    The Mystery of Picasso is a 1956 French documentary film about the painter Pablo Picasso. It shows Picasso in the act of creating paintings for the camera...

    by Henri-Georges Clouzot
    Henri-Georges Clouzot
    Henri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, which are critically recognized to be among the greatest films from the 1950s...

  • Best Acting Award
    Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....

    : Susan Hayward
    Susan Hayward
    Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind . Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting...

     for I'll Cry Tomorrow
    I'll Cry Tomorrow
    I'll Cry Tomorrow is a biopic which tells the story of Lillian Roth, a Broadway star who rebels against the pressure of her domineering mother and reacts to the death of her fiancé by becoming an alcoholic...

  • Best Director
    Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Director Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946....

    : Sergei Yutkevich
    Sergei Yutkevich
    Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was an award-winning Soviet film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:He began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Later he helped found the Factory of the Eccentric Actor , which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts. He entered films in the...

     for Othello
    Othello (1955 film)
    Othello is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich, based on the play Othello by William Shakespeare. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sergei Bondarchuk - Othello* Irina Skobtseva - Desdemona...

  • Best Human Document: Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

  • Best Poetic Humour: Smiles of a Summer Night
    Smiles of a Summer Night
    Smiles of a Summer Night a.k.a. Smiles on a Summer Night is a 1955 Swedish comedy film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was the first of Bergman's films to bring the director international success, due to its exposure at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival...

    by Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman
    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...

  • Short Film Palme d'Or
    Short Film Palme d'Or
    The Short Film Palme d'Or is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the same jury of the Cinéfondation....

    : The Red Balloon
    The Red Balloon
    The Red Balloon is a 1956 fantasy short film directed by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse.The thirty-four minute short, which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon, was filmed in the Ménilmontant neighborhood of Paris, France.It won numerous awards,...

    by Albert Lamorisse
    Albert Lamorisse
    Albert Lamorisse was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who is best known for his award winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s, and also for inventing the famous strategic board game Risk in 1957...

  • Special Mention - Investigative Documentary - Short Film: Together
    Together (1956 film)
    Together is a 1956 film about two deaf people in the East End of London, directed by Lorenza Mazzetti, in collaboration with Denis Horne. The two main characters are played by artists Eduardo Paolozzi and Michael Andrews, who were friends of the filmmaker...

    by Lorenza Mazzetti
  • Best Fiction Film - Short: Magdanas Lurja by Tengiz Abuladze
    Tengiz Abuladze
    Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director.Abuladze studied theatre direction at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK in Moscow. He graduated VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film as a director...

     and Rezo Chkheidze
  • OCIC Award: The Roof
    The Roof (film)
    The Roof is a 1956 Italian drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica.-Plot:Natale, an apprentice bricklayer, and Luisa, who has no skill, marry and try to live with Natale's parents and his seven brothers and sisters in one appartment. This is Rome about 1950. After a quarrel Natale...

    by Vittorio De Sica
    Vittorio de Sica
    Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

  • OCIC Award - Special Mention:
    • The Railroad Man
      The Railroad Man
      The Railroad Man is a 1956 Italian language award winning drama film directed by Pietro Germi.It is available on DVD in USA on NoShame films.-Cast:* Pietro Germi - Andrea Marcocci* Luisa Della Noce - Sara Marcocci...

      by Pietro Germi
      Pietro Germi
      Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...

    • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
      The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
      The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson, is a 1955 novel about the American search for purpose in a world dominated by business. Tom and Betsy Rath share a struggle to find contentment in their hectic and material culture while several other characters fight essentially the same battle,...

      by Nunnally Johnson
      Nunnally Johnson
      Nunnally Hunter Johnson was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed motion pictures.Johnson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the New York Herald Tribune...

    • Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
      Satyajit Ray
      Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...


External links

  • 1956 Cannes Film Festival
  • Cannes Film Festival:1956 at Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...

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