 Official poster of the: 11th Cannes Film Festival | |
| Location | Cannes, France |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or (The Cranes are Flying) |
| No. of films | 26 (In Competition) 1 (Out of Competition) 24 (Short Film) |
| Festival date | 2 May 1958 (1958-05-02) â 18 May 1958 (1958-05-18) |
| Website | festival-cannes |
| Cannes Film Festival | |
The 11th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2ââto 18 May 1958. The Palme d'Or wentââto The Cranes are Flying by, Mikhail Kalatozov.
Juryâ»
The following people were appointed as theââJury of the 1958 competition:
Feature films
- Marcel Achard (France) - Jury President
- Tomiko Asabuki (Japan)
- Bernard Buffet (France)
- Jean De Baroncelli (critic) (France)
- Helmut KĂ€utner (West Germany)
- Dudley Leslie (UK)
- Madeleine Robinson (France)
- Ladislao Vajda (Hungary)
- Charles Vidor (USA)
- Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union)
- Cesare Zavattini (Italy)
Short films
- Norman McLaren (Canada)
- Jean Mitry (France)
- Krishna Riboud (India)
- Edmond SĂ©chan (France)
- Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
Feature film competitionâ»
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
- Brink of Life (NĂ€ra livet) by Ingmar Bergman
- The Brothers Karamazov by Richard Brooks
- La Caleta olvidada by Bruno Gebel
- Ciulinii BÄrÄganului by Louis Daquin
- The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov
- Desire Under the Elms by Delbert Mann
- The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga) by Arne Sucksdorff
- Girl and the River (L'eau vive) by François Villiers
- Goha by Jacques Baratier
- Iron Flower (VasvirĂĄg) by JĂĄnos HerskĂł
- Journey Beyond Three Seas (Pardesi) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin
- The Long, Hot Summer by Martin Ritt
- A Man of Straw (L'uomo di paglia) by Pietro Germi
- A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema) by Michael Cacoyannis
- Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
- Nine Lives (Ni liv) by Arne Skouen
- Orders to Kill by Anthony Asquith
- Parash Pathar by Satyajit Ray
- Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Rosaura a las 10) by Mario Soffici
- Sissi â Fateful Years of an Empress (Sissi â Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin) by Ernst Marischka
- Snow Country (Yukiguni) by ShirĆ Toyoda
- The Spessart Inn (Das Wirtshaus im Spessart) by Kurt Hoffmann
- Suburban Romance (ZizkovskĂĄ romance) by ZbynÄk Brynych
- Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem
- Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
- Young Husbands (Giovani mariti) by Mauro Bolognini
Out of competitionâ»
The following film was selected to be, screened out of competition:
Short film competitionâ»
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
- A.B.C. by John Fernhout
- Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich
- Dubrovacki pasteli by Marijan Vajda
- Egy masodperc tortenete by Ăgoston KollĂĄnyi
- Gloria dei Medici by Antonio Petrucci
- Goya, una vida apasionada by JosĂ© MarĂa Ochoa
- Grafica cloveku by France Kosmac
- HoryĂ»-Ji by Susumu Hani
- La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel
- La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
- Les mystĂšres d'une goutte d'eau by Ann H. Matzner Dr.
- Log Drive by Raymond Garceau
- Mandu by Neil Gokhale
- Nagrodzone uczucia by Walerian Borowczyk & Jan Lenica
- Nez nam narostla kridla by JiĆĂ BrdeÄka
- Ă saisons ĂŽ chĂąteaux by AgnĂšs Varda
- Perameren hylkeenpyytajat by Ulf Backstrom
- Sapte Arte by Ion Popescu-Gopo
- Sintra by JoĂŁo Mendes
- The Story of a Roof by Jamie Uys
- Trees And Jamaica Daddy by Lew Keller
- Voici le pays d'Israel by Jean Lehérissey
- Y gorakh salianskykh by Leonid Belokurov, "Y." Przyjemski
- Zimniy prazdnik by Mikhail Slutsky
Awardsâ»
Official awardsâ»
The following films. And people received the 1958 awards:
- Palme d'Or: The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov
- Best Director: Ingmar Bergman for Brink of Life (NĂ€ra livet)
- Best Screenplay: Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Pier Paolo Pasolini for Young Husbands (Giovani mariti)
- Best Actress: Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Barbro Hiort af OrnÀs and Ingrid Thulin for Brink of Life (NÀra livet)
- Best Actor: Paul Newman for The Long, Hot Summer
- Special Mention:Tatiana Samoylova for Letyat zhuravli
- Jury Prize:
- Jury Special Prize: Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
Short films
- Short Film Palme d'Or:
- Special Prize: Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich & Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiri Brnecka
Independent awardsâ»
- Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem
Referencesâ»
- ^ "Posters 1958". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ "Awards 1958: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
- ^ "Official Selection 1958: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ "1958 - Au seuil de la nouvelle vague (On the threshold of the new wave)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "11Ăšme Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Juries 1958". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1958". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
Mediaâ»
- British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1958 footage
- British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
- British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
- INA: Opening of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)
- INA: Celebrities at the 1958 Cannes festival (commentary in French)
- INA: Closure of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)
External linksâ»
- 1958 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1958 Archived 2018-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1958 at Internet Movie Database