Jury

• Joseph Losey
  Joseph Losey
  Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...
  
   (UK)(president)
• Bibi Andersson
  Bibi Andersson
  Bibi Andersson is a Swedish actress.-Early life:Bibi Andersson was born as Berit Elisabeth Andersson in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, the daughter of Karin , a social worker, and Josef Andersson, a businessman...
  
   (Sweden)
• Georges Auric
  Georges Auric
  Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Georges Caussade, and under the composer Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum...
  
   (France)
• Erskine Caldwell
  Erskine Caldwell
  Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South like the novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was...
  
   (USA)
• 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:...
  
   (Soviet Union)
• Miloš Forman
  Miloš Forman
  Jan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
  
   (USA)
• Giorgio Papi (Yugoslavia)
• Jean Rochereau (France) (journalist)
• Alain Tanner (Switzerland)
• Naoki Togawa (Japan)
• Frédéric Rossif
  Frédéric Rossif
  Frédéric Rossif was a French film and television director who specialized primarily on documentaries, frequently using archive footage. Rossif's common themes included wildlife, 20th century history and contemporary artists...
  
   (France) (short films president)
• Istvan Dosai (Hungary) (Cinématographie official) (short films)
• Vicente Pineda (Italy) (journalist) (short films)

Feature film competition

• Ani Ohev Otach Rosa
  I Love You Rosa
  I Love You Rosa is a 1972 Israeli film directed by Moshé Mizrahi. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Zivi Avramson - Esther* Naomi Bachar - Luna...
  
  by Moshé Mizrahi
  Moshé Mizrahi
  Moshé Mizrahi is an Israeli film director.He has directed 14 films in both Israel and France. Three of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, I Love You Rosa, The House on Chelouche Street and Madame Rosa, with the latter winning the award...
  
  
• Les arpenteurs
  The Surveyors
  The Surveyors is a 1972 Swiss drama film directed by Michel Soutter. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean-Luc Bideau - Leon* Michel Cassagne - Max* Jacques Denis - Lucien* Marie Dubois - Alice* Armen Godel - The Lawyer...
  
  by Michel Soutter
  Michel Soutter
  Michel Soutter was a Swiss film director and screenwriter. He directed 13 films between 1967 and 1991. His 1982 film L'amour des femmes was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Chinmoku
  Silence (1971 film)
  Silence is a 1971 Japanese drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda based on the novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo on the entry of Jesuit missionaries to seventeenth century Japan. Mainly with Japanese dialogue, it has short sequences in English...
  
  by Masahiro Shinoda
  Masahiro Shinoda
  is a Japanese film director, originally associated with the Shochiku Studio, who came to prominence as part of the Japanese New Wave in the 1960s.-Career:...
  
  
• Il Caso Mattei
  The Mattei Affair
  The Mattei Affair is a 1972 film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in...
  
  by Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...
  
  
• Chère Louise
  Dear Louise
  Dear Louise is a 1972 French drama film directed by Philippe de Broca. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jeanne Moreau - Louise* Julian Negulesco - Luigi* Didi Perego - Frédérique* Yves Robert - Magnetto, le marchand de cycles...
  
  by Philippe de Broca
  Philippe de Broca
  Philippe de Broca was a French film director.Born Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of a photographer of noble origins. de Broca was a cinephile from an early age, and he studied at the l'École technique de photographie et de cinématographie...
  
  
• La classe operaia va in paradiso
  The Working Class Goes to Heaven
  The Working Class Goes to Heaven is a 1971 film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple "tool" in the process of production and, implicitly, his struggle with the trade unions...
  
  by Elio Petri
• A Fan's Notes
  A Fan's Notes (film)
  A Fan's Notes is a 1972 Canadian comedy film directed by Eric Till, based on the novel of the same name. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jerry Orbach – Fred* Patricia Collins – Patience* Burgess Meredith – Mr. Blue...
  
  by Eric Till
  Eric Till
  Eric Till is a British film and television director working in Canada, the United States, and Europe since the 1960s.-Career:...
  
  
• Les Feux de la Chandeleur by Serge Korber
  Serge Korber
  Serge Korber is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 45 films between 1962 and 2007.-Selected filmography:* L'homme orchestre * Perched on a Tree * Hearth Fires -External links:...
  
  
• Images
  Images (film)
  Images is a 1972 British-American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Altman.-Plot:Wealthy housewife and children's author Cathryn receives a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home in London one dreary night...
  
  by Robert Altman
  Robert Altman
  Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
  
  
• Jeremiah Johnson by Sydney Pollack
  Sydney Pollack
  Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...
  
  
• King, Queen, Knave
  King, Queen, Knave (film)
  King, Queen, Knave is a 1972 German comedy film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Gina Lollobrigida as Martha Dreyer...
  
  by Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol...
  
  
• Malpertuis
  Malpertuis (film)
  Malpertuis is a 1971 Belgian fantasy-horror directed by Harry Kümel, based on the novel of the same name...
  
  by Harry Kümel
• Mimí metallurgico ferito nell'onore
  The Seduction of Mimi
  Mimí metallurgico ferito nell'onore is an Italian language film directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. It was released in the United States as The Seduction of Mimi, although a literal translation of the title would be "Mimi the metalworker, wounded in honor"...
  
  by Lina Wertmüller
  Lina Wertmüller
  Lina Wertmüller is an Italian film writer and director of aristocratic Swiss descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with the film Seven Beauties.-Biography:...
  
  
• Még kér a nép
  Red Psalm
  Red Psalm is a 1972 film by Miklós Jancsó. The film's Hungarian title translated as And the People Still Ask, a quote from a poem by the Hungarian nationalist poet Sándor Petőfi.-Plot:Red Psalm centers around a small peasants' revolt in 1890...
  
  by Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up , The Red and the White and Red Psalm .Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization,...
  
  
• Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble
  We Won't Grow Old Together
  We Won't Grow Old Together is a 1972 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival where Jean Yanne won the award for Best Actor.-Cast:* Marlène Jobert as Catherine* Jean Yanne as Jean...
  
  by Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films...
  
  
• Perla w koronie
  Pearl in the Crown
  Pearl in the Crown is a 1972 Polish drama film directed by Kazimierz Kutz. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Lucja Kowolik - Wikta* Olgierd Łukaszewicz - Jas* Jan Englert - Erwin Maliniok* Franciszek Pieczka - Hubert Siersza...
  
  by Kazimierz Kutz
  Kazimierz Kutz
  Kazimierz Julian Kutz is a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.- Biography :...
  
  
• Petrolejové lampy
  Oil Lamps (film)
  Oil Lamps is a 1971 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Juraj Herz. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on a novel by Jaroslav Havlíček.-Plot:...
  
  by Juraj Herz
• The Ruling Class
  The Ruling Class
  The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film. It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes' satirical stage play which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman who inherits a peerage. The film costars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour,...
  
  by Peter Medak
  Peter Medak
  Peter Medak is a Hungarian-born film director of British and American films.-Early life:He was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Jewish family, but in 1956 fled his native country for England due to the Hungarian Revolution...
  
  
• Slaughterhouse-Five
  Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
  Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 film based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King. The...
  
  by George Roy Hill
  George Roy Hill
  George Roy Hill was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford...
  
  
• Solyaris
  Solaris (1972 film)
  Solaris is a 1972 film adaptation of the novel Solaris , directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled, because the scientist crew have fallen to...
  
  by Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....
  
  
• To Find a Man
  To Find a Man
  To Find a Man is a 1972 American drama film directed by Buzz Kulik. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Pamela Sue Martin - Rosalind McCarthy * Darren O'Connor - Andy Elliott Morrison...
  
  by Buzz Kulik
  Buzz Kulik
  Buzz Kulik was an American film director and producer. He directed 72 films and television shows, including several episodes of The Twilight Zone.-Selected filmography:* The Explosive Generation...
  
  
• Trotta
  Trotta (film)
  Trotta is a 1971 West German film directed by Johannes Schaaf. It is based on the 1938 novel Die Kapuzinergruft by Austrian author Joseph Roth. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 45th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination...
  
  by Johannes Schaaf
• Das Unheil
  Havoc (1972 film)
  Havoc is a 1972 German thriller film directed by Peter Fleischmann. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Vitus Zeplichal - Hille* Reinhard Kolldehoff - Pfarrer* Silke Kulik - Dimuth* Helga Riedel-Hassenstein - Mutter...
  
  by Peter Fleischmann
  Peter Fleischmann
  Peter Fleischmann is a German film director.- Biography :Peter Fleischmann was born in Zweibrücken. He studied at the German Institute of Film and Television in München and Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris...
  
  
• The Visitors
  The Visitors (1972 film)
  The Visitors is a 1972 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Kazan used Daniel Lang's Casualties of War story as a jumping-off point for this film.-Plot:...
  
  by Elia Kazan
  Elia Kazan
  Elia Kazan was an American director and actor, described by the New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Born in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to Greek parents originally from Kayseri in Anatolia, the family emigrated...
  
  
• La vraie nature de Bernadette
  The True Nature of Bernadette
  The True Nature of Bernadette is a 1972 Canadian drama film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:*...
  
  by Gilles Carle

Films out of competition

• Asta Nielsen by Asta Nielsen
  Asta Nielsen
  Asta Nielsen , was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta...
  
  
• Bröder Carl by Susan Sontag
  Susan Sontag
  Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...
  
  
• Faustine et le bel été
  Faustine et le Bel Été
  Faustine et le Bel Été is a 1972 French comedy film directed by Nina Companéez. It was screened out of competition at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Muriel Catalá - Faustine* Claire Vernet - Claire* Jacques Spiesser - Florent...
  
  by Nina Companéez
  Nina Companéez
  Nina Companéez is a French screenwriter and film director. She has written for 29 films and television shows since 1961.-Selected filmography:* Tonight or Never * Zärtliche Haie * Benjamin...
  
  
• Frenzy
  Frenzy
  Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The film is based upon the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern, and was adapted for the screen by Anthony Shaffer. La Bern...
  
  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...
  
  
• L'aventure c'est l'aventure by Claude Lelouch
• La dérive by Paula Delsol
• La Génération du désert by Nicole Stéphane
  Nicole Stéphane
  Nicole Stéphane was a French actress, producer and director. As an actress, she is mostly known for her role in two films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants terribles and Le Silence de la mer.The elder of the two daughters of Baron James-Henri de Rothschild and his first wife, Claude Dupont,...
  
  
• Une guerre pour une paix by Nicole Stéphane
  Nicole Stéphane
  Nicole Stéphane was a French actress, producer and director. As an actress, she is mostly known for her role in two films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants terribles and Le Silence de la mer.The elder of the two daughters of Baron James-Henri de Rothschild and his first wife, Claude Dupont,...
  
  
• Den gale dansker by Kirsten Stenbæk
• Le lys de mer by Jacqueline Audry
  Jacqueline Audry
  Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful woman director of post-war France....
  
  
• Hvezda Betlémská by Hermína Týrlová
  Hermína Týrlová
  Hermína Týrlová was a prominent Czech stage designer, animator, and film director. She was often called the mother of Czech animation. She was a close collaborator of Karel Zeman.-External links:**. [14-05-2003] Por Andrea Fajkusová*....
  
  
• Alye maki Issyk-Kulya by Bolotbek Shamshiyev
  Bolotbek Shamshiyev
  Bolotbek Shamshiyev is a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed eleven films between 1965 and 1988. His 1976 film The White Ship was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
  
  
• Les Jeunes Filles En Fleurs by David Hamilton, Philippe Leroi
• Macbeth
  Macbeth (1971 film)
  Macbeth is a 1971 British-American drama film directed by Roman Polanski, based on William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, about the Highland lord who becomes King of Scotland through treachery and murder. It features Jon Finch as Macbeth and Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth...
  
  by Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
  
  
• Marie by Márta Mészáros
  Márta Mészáros
  Márta Mészáros is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachersmeaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender...
  
  
• Merry-Go-Round by Kirsten Stenbæk
• Papa, les petits bateaux by Nelly Kaplan
• Roma
  Roma (1972 film)
  Roma, also known as Fellini's Roma, is a 1972 semi-autobiographical, poetic film depicting director Federico Fellini's move from his native Rimini to Rome as a youth. It is formed by a series of loosely connected episodes. The plot is minimal, and the only character to develop significantly is...
  
  by Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
  
  
• Serata by Malvina Ursianu
• Sziget a szárazföldön by Judit Elek
  Judit Elek
  Judit Elek is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She has directed 16 films between 1962 and 2006. Her film Mária-nap was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  

Short film competition

• Atlantyda by Piotr Szpakowicz
• The Birth of Aphrodite by Leland Auslender
• Le Fusil à lunette by Jean Chapot
• Giovanni Michelucci
  Giovanni Michelucci
  Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He was one of the major Italian architects of the 20th century, known for notable projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole....
  
  by Fernando Cerchio
  Fernando Cerchio
  Fernando Cerchio was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1940 and 1972.-Selected filmography:* Lulu * Il Sepolcro dei re -External links:...
  
  
• Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
  Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
  Hundertwasser's Rainy Day is a 1972 German short documentary film directed by Peter Schamoni. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....
  
  by Peter Schamoni
  Peter Schamoni
  Peter Schamoni was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 35 films between 1957 and 2011. His 1966 film No Shooting Time for Foxes was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize...
  
  
• Jour de classe by Henri Jouf
• Magic Graz by Curt M. Faudon
• Malka dnevna muzika by Ivan Vesselinov
• Mini
  Mini (film)
  Mini is a 1995 award-winning Malayalam film written by Iskantar Mirsa, produced by Madhu and directed by P. Chandrakumar. The film handles the problem of alcoholism through the determined efforts of a young girl to save her father from self destruction. It stars Arati, Chandrahasan, Kuckoo...
  
  by Stoian Doukov
• I Omorfia tou thanatou by Nestoras Matsas
• Operation X-70 by Raoul Servais
  Raoul Servais
  Raoul Servais is a Belgian filmmaker. He was born in Ostend.-Filmography:* 1963: The False Note* 1966: Chromophobia* 1968: Sirene* 1969: Goldframe* 1970: To speak or not to speak* 1971: Operation X-70...
  
  
• Pour solde de tout compte by Louis Pitzele
• Een Zeer zonnige wereld by Pieter De Groot
  Pieter de Groot
  Pieter de Groot was a Dutch regent and diplomat during the First Stadtholderless Period of the Dutch Republic...
  
  
• Zikkaron by Laurent Coderre

Awards

• Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
  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...
  
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  • La classe operaia va in paradiso
    The Working Class Goes to Heaven
    The Working Class Goes to Heaven is a 1971 film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple "tool" in the process of production and, implicitly, his struggle with the trade unions...
    
    by Elio Petri
  • Il Caso Mattei
    The Mattei Affair
    The Mattei Affair is a 1972 film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in...
    
    by Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...
    
    
• Grand Prix
  Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
  
  : Solyaris
  Solaris (1972 film)
  Solaris is a 1972 film adaptation of the novel Solaris , directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled, because the scientist crew have fallen to...
  
  by Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....
  
  
• Jury 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....
  
  : Slaughterhouse-Five
  Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
  Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 film based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King. The...
  
  by George Roy Hill
  George Roy Hill
  George Roy Hill was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford...
  
  
• Best Actor
  Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actor 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.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....
  
  : Jean Yanne
  Jean Yanne
  Jean Yanne is the artist name of Jean Gouyé, born the 18 July 1933 in Les Lilas who died the 23 May 2003 in Morsains...
  
   for Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble
  We Won't Grow Old Together
  We Won't Grow Old Together is a 1972 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival where Jean Yanne won the award for Best Actor.-Cast:* Marlène Jobert as Catherine* Jean Yanne as Jean...
  
  
• Best Actress
  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:* * ....
  
  : Susannah York
  Susannah York
  Susannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   for Images
  Images (film)
  Images is a 1972 British-American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Altman.-Plot:Wealthy housewife and children's author Cathryn receives a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home in London one dreary night...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up , The Red and the White and Red Psalm .Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization,...
  
   for Még kér a nép
  Red Psalm
  Red Psalm is a 1972 film by Miklós Jancsó. The film's Hungarian title translated as And the People Still Ask, a quote from a poem by the Hungarian nationalist poet Sándor Petőfi.-Plot:Red Psalm centers around a small peasants' revolt in 1890...
  
  
• Special Mention: Gian Maria Volonté
  Gian Maria Volontè
  Gian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.-Early life:Volonté was born in Milan, and graduated in Rome in 1957...
  
   for La Classe operaia va in paradiso
  The Working Class Goes to Heaven
  The Working Class Goes to Heaven is a 1971 film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple "tool" in the process of production and, implicitly, his struggle with the trade unions...
  
  and Il Caso Mattei
  The Mattei Affair
  The Mattei Affair is a 1972 film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize:
  • Roma
    Roma (1972 film)
    Roma, also known as Fellini's Roma, is a 1972 semi-autobiographical, poetic film depicting director Federico Fellini's move from his native Rimini to Rome as a youth. It is formed by a series of loosely connected episodes. The plot is minimal, and the only character to develop significantly is...
    
    by Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
    
    
  • Zikkaron by Laurent Coderre
• 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....
  
  : Le Fusil à lunette by Jean Chapot
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film: Operation X-70 by Raoul Servais
  Raoul Servais
  Raoul Servais is a Belgian filmmaker. He was born in Ostend.-Filmography:* 1963: The False Note* 1966: Chromophobia* 1968: Sirene* 1969: Goldframe* 1970: To speak or not to speak* 1971: Operation X-70...
  
  
• FIPRESCI Prize:
  • Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès by René Vautier
  • Solyaris
    Solaris (1972 film)
    Solaris is a 1972 film adaptation of the novel Solaris , directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled, because the scientist crew have fallen to...
    
    by Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....
    
    

External links

• 1972 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1972 at Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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