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1954 Cannes Film Festival
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 1954 Cannes Film Festival |
| image | CFF54poster.jpg |
| caption | Official poster of the 7th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Piva. |
| number | 43 (In Competition) |
| opening | Le Grand Jeu |
| location | Cannes, France |
| awards | Grand Prix: |
| Gate of Hell | |
| date | – |
| founded | 1946 |
| website | |
| main | Cannes Film Festival |
| previous | 1953 |
| next | 1955 |
Gate of Hell
The 7th Cannes Film Festival took place from 25 March to 9 April 1954. French writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau served as jury president for the main competition. This was the last festival with a predominantly French jury.
The Grand Prix was awarded, as the highest prize of the Festival, to Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
As the festival was becoming more and more a pole of showbiz attraction, scandals and romances of stars were appearing in the press. In 1954, the Simone Silva affair during the Cannes Festival ended up in the destruction of her career as an actress and her premature death, three years later.
The festival opened with Flesh and the Woman by Robert Siodmak.
Juries
Main Competition
- Jean Cocteau, French writer and filmmaker - Jury President
- Jean Aurenche, French writer
- André Bazin, French film critic
- Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker
- Henri Calef, French fimmaker
- Guy Desson, French MP official
- Philippe Erlanger, French
- Michel Fourre-Cormeray, French
- Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, French CNC official
- Jacques Ibert, French composer
- Georges Lamousse, French Senate official
- André Lang, French
- Noël-Noël, French actor
- Georges Raguis, French union official
Short Films Competition
- Henning Jensen, Danish filmmaker, actor and editor
- Albert Lamorisse, French filmmaker
- Jean Queval, French journalist
- Jean Tedesco, French filmmaker
- Jean Vivie, French CST official
Official Sections
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventures of the Barber of Seville | Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla | Ladislao Vajda | France, Spain |
| All Is Possible in Granada | Todo es posible en Granada | Carlos Blanco and José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Spain |
| As Long as You're Near Me | Solange Du da bist | Harald Braun | West Germany |
| Before the Deluge | Avant le déluge | André Cayatte | France, Italy |
| Beneath the 12-Mile Reef | Robert D. Webb | United States | |
| The Blazing Sun | صراع في الوادي | Youssef Chahine | Egypt |
| The Boy and the Fog | El Niño y la niebla | Roberto Gavaldón | Mexico |
| Bread of Love | Kärlekens bröd | Arne Mattsson | Sweden |
| Chronicle of Poor Lovers | Cronache di poveri amanti | Carlo Lizzani | Italy |
| Circus Fandango | Cirkus Fandango | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| Comedians | Cómicos | Juan Antonio Bardem | Spain |
| Five Boys from Barska Street | Piatka z ulicy Barskiej | Aleksander Ford | Poland |
| Flesh and the Woman | Le Grand Jeu | Robert Siodmak | France, Italy |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | United States | |
| *Gate of Hell* | 地獄門 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Japan |
| The Great Adventure | Det Stora Ädventyret | Arne Sucksdorff | Sweden |
| The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | Великий воин Албании Скандербег | Sergei Yutkevich | Soviet Union, Albania |
| An Inlet of Muddy Water | にごりえ | Tadashi Imai | Japan |
| The Kidnappers | Philip Leacock | United Kingdom | |
| Kiskrajcár | Márton Keleti | Hungary | |
| Knave of Hearts | Monsieur Ripois | René Clément | France, United Kingdom |
| Knights of the Round Table | Richard Thorpe | United Kingdom | |
| Komedianti | Vladimír Vlcek | Czechoslovakia | |
| The Last Bridge | Die Letzte Brücke | Helmut Käutner | Austria, Yugoslavia |
| Little Boy Lost | George Seaton | United States | |
| The Living Desert | James Algar | ||
| Love in a Hot Climate | Sang et lumières | Georges Rouquier and Ricardo Muñoz Suay | France, Spain |
| Love Letter | 恋文 | Kinuyo Tanaka | Japan |
| Maddalena | Augusto Genina | France, Italy | |
| Man of Africa | Cyril Frankel | United Kingdom | |
| Marina's Destiny | Судьба Марины | Isaak Shmaruk and Viktor Ivchenko | Soviet Union |
| The Martyr of Calvary | El Mártir del Calvario | Miguel Morayta | Mexico |
| Mayurpankh | Kishore Sahu | India | |
| Memories of a Mexican | Memorias de un Mexicano | Carmen Toscano | Mexico |
| The Monster | الوحش | Salah Abu Seif | Egypt |
| Naked Amazon | Feitiço do Amazonas | Zygmunt Sulistrowski | Brazil |
| Neapolitan Carousel | Carosello napoletano | Ettore Giannini | Italy |
| Pamposh | Ezra Mir | India | |
| Si mis campos hablaran | José Bohr | Chile | |
| Song of the Sea | O Canto do Mar | Alberto Cavalcanti | Brazil |
| Stars of the Russian Ballet | Мастера русского балета | Herbert Rappaport | Soviet Union |
| Two Acres of Land | Do Bigha Zamin | Bimal Roy | India |
| Windfall in Athens | Κυριακάτικο Ξύπνημα | Michael Cacoyannis | Greece |
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
- Apollon kai Dafni by Thanassis Meritzis
- Aptenodytes forsteri (Les Pingouins) by Mario Marret
- Aquarium by Ágoston Kollányi
- The Blakes Slept Here by Jacques Bernard Brunius
- Christophe Plantin, imprimeur des humanistes du XVIeme siècle by Gaston Vermaillen
- Der dom zu Koeln by Ulrich Kayser
- El Greco en su obra maestra : El entierro del Conde Orgaz by Juan Serra
- Er is altijd een tockomst by Kees Stip
- Exploratieboren by Bert Haanstra
- Feminine Fashions by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
- Il fiume della vita by Enrico Castelli Gattinara
- Folk Dances of India by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
- Det gjelder livet by Titus Vibe Müller
- Una goccia d'acqua by Enzo Trovasilli
- Highlands of Iceland by Magnus Johannsson
- Hokusai by Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Jaktflygare by Helge Sahlin
- Jyske kyst by Søren Melson
- Kék vércsék erdejében by István Homoki-Nagy
- Koziołeczek by Lechosław Marszałek
- Kutna hora by Fr. Lukas
- Land of Enlightment by Mohan Wadhwani
- Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne by Johan Jacobsen
- Lumière by P. Paviot
- Miniatury kodesku behema by Stanisław Lenartowicz
- Le mystère de la Licorne by Arcady, Jean-Claude See
- Nouveaux horizons by Marcel Ichac
- Nytt land under svillene by Per Opsahl
- O kohoutkovi a slepičce by Zdenec Miler
- A Drop Too Much (O sklenicku víc) by Bretislav Pojar
- L'Ombre de St Michel by Jean Pichonnier, Paul Pichonnier
- De Opsporing van Aardolie by Bert Haanstra
- The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Brian Borthwick, John Halas
- Pik droujby by I. Goutman
- Plastik im Freien by Adalbert Baltes
- The Pleasure Garden by James Broughton
- Polyot na lunu by Vladimir Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg
- Promenade au Luxembourg by Philippe Schneider
- Rene Leriche chirurgien de la douleur by René Lucot
- River of Hope by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
- Ruban noir by Henry Jacques
- El solitario de Sayan by Enrico Gras
- Stare miasto (The Old Town of Warsaw) by Jerzy Bossak
- Stern von Bethlehem by Wilhelm Döderlein
- Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom by Ward Kimball, Charles A. Nichols
- Uspavana ljepotica by Rudolf Sremec
- La vie des Chamois by André Bureau, Paul Claudon, P. Dalli, Pierre Levent, André Villard
- Vieren maar by Herman van der Horst
- Viragos kalocsa by Vince Lakatos
- Vita della libellula by Alberto Ancillotto
- Wild Life Sanctuary by D.D. Reucassel
Official Awards
Main Competition
- Grand Prix: Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa
- International Prize
- Before the Deluge by André Cayatte
- Neapolitan Carousel by Ettore Giannini
- Chronicle of Poor Lovers by Carlo Lizzani
- Two Acres of Land by Bimal Roy
- Five Boys from Barska Street by Aleksander Ford
- The Last Bridge by Helmut Käutner
- The Living Desert by James Algar
- The Great Adventure by Arne Sucksdorff
- The Great Warrior Skanderbeg by Sergei Yutkevich
- Jury Special Prize: Knave of Hearts by René Clément
- Special Mention:
- André Cayatte and Charles Spaak for Before the Deluge
- Maria Schell for her performance in The Last Bridge
- The camera crew of The Living Desert
- Aleksander Ford for Five Boys from Barska Street
- Arne Sucksdorff for The Great Adventure
- Sergei Yutkevich for The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
Independent Awards
[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prize]]
- Before the Deluge by André Cayatte
[[SIGNIS|OCIC Award]]
- The Last Bridge by Helmut Käutner
References
Media
- Institut National de l'Audiovisuel: Opening of the 1954 Festival (Michèle Morgan and Robert Mitchum, commentary in French)
- INA: Opening of the 1954 Festival (Daniel Gélin and Gina Lollobrigida, commentary in French)
References
- "Posters 1954". festival-cannes.fr.
- "7ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr.
- "1952-1959: Celebrities, politics and the film world". fresques.ina.fr.
- "1954 - Le Grand Jeu". "cannes-fest.com".
- "Juries 1954 : All the Juries". festival-cannes.fr.
- "Official Selection 1954: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr.
- "Awards 1954: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr.
- "1954 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com.
- "FIPRESCI Awards 1954". fipresci.org.
- "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1954". imdb.com.
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